Health Care Systems
Health care systems organise the finance and delivery of health care. They vary by country, reflecting specific history, culture, and economics. To maximise coverage and efficiency they must evolve with changing demographics, needs, and technologies.
Medical Care in Developing Countries
1 November 1972
During the course of the past hundred years countries such as Britain have seen a very marked change in their patterns of morbidity and mortality. For…
Medicine and Society: the Changing Demands for Medical Care
1 October 1972
The control of the major health problems of the early part of the twentieth century represents a triumph for medical progress in the past twenty-five years.…
Hospital Purchasing
1 September 1972
Out of £868 minion spent on the revenue account of the hospital service in England and Wales in 1970, £242 million, or a little over one…
Building for Health
1 July 1970
In 1948 the newly created National Health Service inherited a stock of buildings which varied very widely in both quality and quantity from area to area.…
Ophthalmic Service
1 July 1970
inscription, ‘Here lies Salvino Armato, the inventor of spectacles’. The inscription is probably inaccurate since both the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Chinese were aware of…
Human Relations in General Practice
1 July 1969
Proceedings of a Symposium held at The Royal College of General Practitioners, London 15 September 1968 It is frequently suggested that personal relationships between General Practitioners…
General Practice Today
1 July 1968
WITH the inception of the National Health Service in 1948 the scope of general practice was enlarged to provide free medical care for each and every…
Without Prescription: a Study of the Role of Self-Medication
1 July 1968
The total expenditure on medicines in the United Kingdom in 1966 was £267 million. Of this £188 million was for medicines prescribed on the National Health…