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Techniques of Health Status Measurement Using a Health Index
1 April 1985
…care units (Acton 1973) to vaccination against infectious diseases (Adler et al 1983) entails the systematic comparison of as many costs and benefits as possible, with a view to determining…
Cost and Benefits of Pharmaceutical Research
1 May 1987
…compounds have all made the new surgery possible, while treatments for such diseases as diabetes, hypertension, bronchitis and asthma, mental illness and arthritis come directly from pharmaceutical research. The Research…
Health Care in China
1 September 1988
…local community. The reduction in the birth rate and the apparently virtual elimination of sexually transmitted diseases suggest that it has been possible to set standards of social behaviour in…
Diabetes: a Model for Health Care Management
10 January 1989
…their support workers. If they are going to control the complications and avoid serious impact on patients health through diseases in the heart, stroke, the peripheral vessels, the kidneys, the…
Impact of New Medicines on Health Care Costs
1 March 1989
…for the Health Service from the control of tuberculosis (OHE 1962). The control of infectious diseases as a whole in the 1950s contributed a major economic ‘bonus’ to the National…
Osteoporosis and the risk of fracture
1 January 1990
…has increased so have the diseases of elderly people, particularly women. Women are especially vulnerable to osteoporotic fractures not only because of the link between osteoporosis and the menopause but…
Science in Medicine: How Far Has It Advanced?
1 January 1993
…book examine these two aspects of science in medicine, starting with a historical perspective, and then taking three examples — infection: nervous diseases: and psychiatry — to illustrate the advances…
Trends in Economic Evaluation
1 April 1998
…will be illustrated by comparing the distribution for 1992 and 1996 over the chapters of the International Classification of Diseases (Clinical Modifications), ninth revision (ICD-9) classification system for 1992 and…
Genomics, Healthcare and Public Policy
1 October 1999
…disease in that population. Genetics is the study of individual genes and their roles in cell functioning and reproduction. Mutations in specific genes often produce, or contribute to, diseases, thus…