Health Data and Statistics
Health statistics are used to understand risk factors for communities, track and monitor diseases, see the impact of policy changes and assess the quality and safety of health care.
Health Care Research Expenditure
1 June 1978
In the financial year 1976-77 over £220 million was spent on health care research in the United Kingdom. Taking account of recent expenditure growth and making…
Medicines in the 1990s: a Technological Forecast
1 July 1969
By 1990, the total cost of the National Health Service will probably have reached about £10,000 million of which about £1,300 million will be for medicines…
Alive to Forty-Five
1 July 1967
Proceedings of a Symposium held at the College of General Practitioners, London Sunday, 27 November, 1966 When discussing the four commonest causes of death among young…
Disorders Which Shorten Life
1 July 1966
A review of mortality trends for those between the ages of 15 and 44 The productivity of any community, both in economic and social terms, depends…
New Frontiers in Health
7 January 1964
A review of the incidence, impact and implications of minor and unrecognised illness in the community This booklet is about the future of medicine. It presents information…