Review

The Economics of Dental Care

1 June 2004

Looked at overall, dental care represents a fascinating mix of the public and private spheres. It has a strong component that many people argue can be…

Developments in Economic Evaluation in Health Care: A Review of HEED

3 January 2004

Health care decision makers are becoming increasingly concerned with obtaining value for money and therefore with the use of economic evidence, particularly as a criterion for…

To Heal and Harm: An Economic View of Drug Safety

1 December 2003

The aims of this book are to: • provide an historical background to modern pharmaceutical regulation; • summarise available data on the harm caused by medicines;…

Managing to do Better: General Practice in the 21st Century

1 July 2000

Health systems the world over are striving to manage their available resource to deliver the best value for the public’s health. For most nations, the general…

Tuberculosis

1 October 1998

The first Office of Health Economics (OHE) disease state booklet, written in 1962, was entitled ‘Progress against Tuberculosis’ and was published at a time of great…

Economic Aspects of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

1 July 1998

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is not a single disease entity but covers a complex group of different types of malignancy. They differ in the cells affected, their…

Hospital Acquired Infection

8 January 1997

‘About one in ten patients in acute hospitals at any one time has an infection acquired after admission to hospitals’ (DH/PHLS, 1995, pi). This quotation, introducing…

Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism

10 January 1996

Thrombosis had been recognised as a disease since around 2000 BC, but the word thrombosis was first used by Claudius Galenos (130 – 200 AD). Pulmonary…

The Future of Primary Care

1 January 1996

The chapters in this book are based on the contributions to a conference organised by the Office of Health Economics and held at the Zoological Society…