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Skin Disorders
1 June 1973
…to the ‘skin diseases’ which were common before the preventive and therapeutic developments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In earlier times, when smallpox was endemic, leprosy frequently seen and…
Vaccination
1 September 1974
…main viral cause of severe mental retardation. Yet in countries like Britain where health standards in the area of communicable diseases are already high the scope for extending the application…
Multiple Sclerosis
1 May 1975
…presence of precipitating influences in both diseases (e.g. pregnancy) and the intermittent nature of the two complaints. On a broader level, clues relating to the aetiology and epidemiology of the…
Birth Impairments
9 January 1978
…diseases with antibiotics. The factors and mechanisms which deflect foetal development from a normal course remain, as yet, unclear. The scope for preventing the birth of impaired infants is therefore…
Accidents in childhood
1 September 1981
…from 21 to 30 per cent. This development is not, however, as disturbing as it might initially appear for it is more a reflection of the elimination of infectious diseases…
Alcohol: Reducing the Harm
1 April 1981
…from conditions like alcohol related liver diseases and peptic ulcers, the results of driving whilst intoxicated and the many economic and social burdens which may be inflicted on an individual…
Sickness Absence – A Review
8 January 1981
…contemporaneous loss of just over 15 million days arising from industrial injuries or prescribed diseases and the 9.4 million working days absorbed by industrial stoppages in the calendar year 1978….
Trends in European Health Spending
5 January 1981
…need for much traditional medical expenditure has been reduced by medical progress, for example by the virtual elimination of many of the infectious diseases. In other cases, such as mental…
Medicines and the Quality of Life
1 September 1982
…possible to quantify essentially qualitative measures of wellbeing. The paper suggests that this can be done, at least for individual diseases. Furthermore, it seems probable that in the future these…