Publications

Mental Handicap: ways forward

1 April 1978

This paper analyses the occurrence and causes of reduced mental ability and its handicapping consequences with the objective of highlighting those areas where there is most…

Pharmaceutical Prices: A continental view

1 April 1978

It has not normally been OHE policy to reprint articles which have previously been published elsewhere. However, it seemed desirable to make an exception for this…

Renal Failure a priority in health?

4 January 1978

The incidence of treatable chronic renal failure in Britain and other Western countries is very small indeed. The most commonly quoted figure is forty people (under…

Physical Impairment: Social Handicap

1 November 1977

Britain’s one and a half million physically handicapped people do not form a homogeneous group. It is wrong to regard them as a discrete section of…

Sources of Information for Prescribing Doctors in Britain

9 January 1977

The information which pharmaceutical manufacturers provide for prescribing doctors – in the form of sales promotion and advertising – has been the subject of considerable and…

Preventing Bronchitis

1 April 1977

In 1808 Charles Badham adopted the term ‘bronchitis’ to define collectively ’chronic pectoral (chest) complaints, especially those of people advanced in life . . . ‘…

The Reorganised NHS

1 March 1977

This study of the reorganised National Health Service is divided into two papers. The first describes the new structure and the management concepts on which it…

Viral Hepatitis in Britain

1 January 1977

Viral hepatitis consists of at least two distinct disease entities. Although they are both virus infections of the liver which may lead to clinical ‘yellow jaundice’,…

Asthma

1 October 1976

Asthma, a term derived from the Greek meaning to pant, was first clearly described by Aretaeus, a physician who practised in the second and third centuries…