Publications

Disability in Britain – The Process of Transition

1 July 1981

Following a proposal originally made by the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the General Assembly of the United Nations decided late in 1976 that 1981…

Trends in European Health Spending

5 January 1981

In Europe, as in other developed countries, health expenditures have recently been rising proportionately faster than national wealth. Between 1960 and 1978 the percentage of gross…

Alcohol: Reducing the Harm

1 April 1981

Produced easily by fermentation, ethyl alcohol has for at least 5 to 8 thousand years played a part in the development of human civilisation; as a…

Economic Aspects of the Development of New Medicines

1 January 1981

A lecture, on the economics of developing new drugs, particularly in relation to whether this should be a national or private enterprise.  I have chosen to…

Health Research in England: Topic for Debate

1 January 1981

This paper is derived from the proceedings of an Office of Health Economics Study Day, held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology on 11…

Suicide and Deliberate Self Harm

1 January 1981

Official mortality statistics show that each year in England and Wales approximately 4,000 people take their own lives. By universal assent this figure understates the true…

Effects of Prescription Charges

12 January 1980

The annual number of NHS prescriptions dispensed by chemist and appliance contractors in the United Kingdom is falling after a seven year period of expansion. As…

Mild Hypertension

1 November 1980

The risks from untreated high blood pressure at even mildly elevated levels are well documented in quantitative terms. American insurance companies have since the interwar years…

Medicines: 50 Years of Progress 1930-1980

7 January 1980

The Office of Health Economics was invited to make a contribution to the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the ABPI. This booklet is our response.…