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Alcohol Abuse
1 July 1970
…chronic alcoholism is a continuous process although only a small proportion of drinkers progress through all the steps. The definition of alcoholism is thus complicated by the difficulty of isolating,…
Health Care Dilemma or ‘Am I kranken, doctor?’
1 August 1975
…as the care of the elderly, the chronic sick and the mentally handicapped. The other viewpoint, which OHE rejects, is that any expressed demand for medical care – however irrational…
Scarce Resources in Health Care
2 January 1979
…‘caring’ side of medicine, with all its own problems and shortages. Clearly there is unlimited scope for improving the conditions of the mentally handicapped, the chronic sick and the elderly,…
End Stage Renal Failure
1 April 1980
…treatment are in considerably shorter supply than in comparable countries. ‘End Stage Renal Failure’, an originally American term, is preferred to the alternative ‘Chronic Renal Failure’. Together with the complementary…
Medicines: 50 Years of Progress 1930-1980
7 January 1980
…limits of space and time which have constrained our text in two main aspects. First, we have chronicled the development of new medicines by way of groupings related to the…
Hip Replacement in the NHS
1 March 1982
…chronic pain and disability caused by these conditions. With the exception of abortion no other surgical procedure has increased in number so rapidly over the course of the seventies. In…
National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History?
1 January 1998
…a major paradox. As comprehensively chronicled in the recent book by Geoffrey Rivett, biomedical research and its technical application represents a cumulative, accelerating and in many respects inspiring record of…
David Mott
14 August 2019
…modifier, integrating carer spillovers into health technology assessment, eliciting treatment and health outcome preferences of people with acute and chronic leukaemia, and exploring the complexities of valuing health in children…
Reimagining Prevention for a Healthier, More Prosperous Society
12 October 2023
…The report identifies four critical gaps Low uptake of existing programs Insufficient delivery capacity Short-term investment focus Chronic underfunding These gaps contribute to missed opportunities for a healthier and more…