Publications
Dementia in Old Age
10 January 1979
Dementia — that is, irreversible and usually progressive destruction of the brain in old age, the causes of which have yet to be identified – is…
Immunisation for Everyone – The Polio Experience
1 September 1979
In the richer nations of Europe and North America the gaining of control over the common infectious illnesses was a long, gradual process. It was initiated…
Medicines for the year 2000
1 September 1979
A symposium held at the Royal College of Physicians, London in September 1978 by the Office of Health Economics. I do not want to trespass into…
Schizophrenia
1 April 1979
More people of working age who are in hospital or disabled in the community suffer from schizophrenic illness than any other potentially handicapping condition. In the…
Scarce Resources in Health Care
2 January 1979
Over the past few years serious efforts have been made in Britain and elsewhere to achieve a more rational distribution of health care resources. It has…
Accidents
1 November 1978
On each day in 1976 in England and Wales approximately forty-one people died and thousands more were either severely or slightly injured as a result of…
Cost of the NHS
1 October 1978
In 1978 the cost of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom will rise, to an estimated record level of £8,000 million. Even when adjusted…
Birth Impairments
9 January 1978
Most of the 600,000 babies born in England and Wales each year are healthy and have before them the prospect of active lives spanning seventy years…
Health Care Research Expenditure
1 June 1978
In the financial year 1976-77 over £220 million was spent on health care research in the United Kingdom. Taking account of recent expenditure growth and making…