Policy, Organisation and Incentives in Health Systems
Health system policies should incentivise high-quality health care in areas of highest need at the lowest feasible cost. Our aim is to expand our understanding of policies that result in healthier populations and achieve sustainability while being responsive to patients’ needs.
Ill in Europe
1 October 1982
People pay for some health care themselves out of income and savings. In Britain, out of a total expenditure on health care of all kinds of…
Medicines, Health and the Poor World
1 April 1982
In 1972 the Office of Health Economics produced a paper entitled Medical Care in Developing Countries. Drawing on both information available within the pharmaceutical industry and…
Hip Replacement in the NHS
1 March 1982
Of all forms of joint replacement operation, that for hips represents the most outstanding innovation. It is perhaps the major post-war surgical development and the key…
Doctors, Nurses and Midwives in the NHS
1 November 1981
There have been substantial increases in all categories of professional manpower in the National Health Service since it was first established in 1949. This Briefing examines…
Trends in European Health Spending
5 January 1981
In Europe, as in other developed countries, health expenditures have recently been rising proportionately faster than national wealth. Between 1960 and 1978 the percentage of gross…
Health Research in England: Topic for Debate
1 January 1981
This paper is derived from the proceedings of an Office of Health Economics Study Day, held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology on 11…
Effects of Prescription Charges
12 January 1980
The annual number of NHS prescriptions dispensed by chemist and appliance contractors in the United Kingdom is falling after a seven year period of expansion. As…
Question of Balance: the Benefits and Risks of Pharmaceutical Innovation
1 May 1980
Since this monograph was completed, two new stories concerning the safety of medicines have been featured prominently in the British press. The first has been on…
Perinatal Mortality in Britain – A Question of Class
1 December 1979
This OHE Briefing illustrates some of the difficulties inherent in making accurate international and international comparisons with regard to perinatal mortality, the most sensitive widely collected…