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Keep on Taking the Tablets? A Review of the Problem of Patient Non-Compliance
1 October 1983
There has always been a problem in making sure that patients take the medicines which doctors prescribe for them in accordance with their instructions. The problem varies from the patients…
Childhood Vaccination: Current Controversies
1 July 1984
The historical roots of immunisation can probably be traced back to ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations and the observation that adults who survived an attack of smallpox did not usually…
Patterns of European Diagnoses and Prescribing
1 January 1984
In the summer of 1982 the Medico-Pharmaceutical Forum held a meeting on ‘Disparities in European Medicine’. The aim was to compare and contrast the various aspects of health and medical…
Health, Education and General Practice
1 January 1986
This booklet is based on a meeting organised by the Office of Health Economics and chaired by Sir John Butterfield at the Ciba Foundation on 30th October 1985. The meeting…
AIDS Virus: Forecasting Its Impact
1 December 1986
In purely quantitative terms, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) might not appear to have warranted the remarkable amount of attention it has attracted since 1982. By the end of October…
Migraine
1 September 1991
…of disturbances in the vascular or neurological systems, started in the late 19th century, remains unresolved. Various popular beliefs have grown up around migraine, for example, that it is a…
Health Information and the Consumer
1 January 1995
This book contains the proceedings of a conference held by the Office of Health on 30 November 1994 entitled ‘Health Information and the Consumer’ and chaired by Lord Peston. The…
Using Consumer Preferences in Health Care Decision Making: The Application of Conjoint Analysis
1 April 1996
The idea that clients or users of public services might legitimately have opinions about how they should be delivered is a relatively new one in the United Kingdom, where producers’…
Hospital Acquired Infection
8 January 1997
…primary and secondary care. Given that many health care systems are changing, that lengths of stay are shrinking and that financial accountability is both more transparent and more stringent, it…