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- Office of Health Economics (2003): Mental Health Economics and Policy in a Global Context
The purpose of the conference was to locate and promote the role of health economics in mental health policy in low and middle income countries. Health economists have a growing voice in health policy development. But just as it is only recently that mental health policy specifically has been highlighted on the global stage, with the WHO’s 2001 World Health Report, so too has the economics of mental health only comparatively recently started to claim attention on the global policy stage. ... The participants heard and discussed presentations from prominent practitioners in the field of mental health economics and policy in a global context. ... Together, they amount to a primer in mental health economics and policy in low and middle income countries.
RePEc:ohe:sembri:000482 Save to MyIDEAS - Office of Health Economics (1970): Building for Health
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. Hospitals formed the major part of the existing health services' physical capital stock. ... Physical investment in buildings and equipment must be considered in relation to the immense investment in recent decades in 'intangible' capital assets which does not generally enter in t to the capital account of the National Health Service. ... With the probability of an increasingly capital intensive health service, the optimal building programme for the future must provide a framework which will encourage the fullest possible exploitation of technological advances, and which will allow the most productive combination of the resources at the disposal of the health service.
RePEc:ohe:shealt:000186 Save to MyIDEAS - Office of Health Economics (1971): Prospects in Health
The health services as such are now most commonly concerned with acute or chronic morbidity, where the objectives are to limit disease or to prevent progressive deterioration.
RePEc:ohe:shealt:000205 Save to MyIDEAS - Office of Health Economics (1965): Local Health Services
The structure of the National Health Service today is tripartite in form. ... The third major part of the National Health Service consists of the services provided by county councils and county boroughs in their role of Local Health Authorities which account for about one tenth of the total cost. ... Distinctions between Local Authority duties as Health, Welfare, and Public Health Authority can vary according to the context, and are therefore often difficult to make. However, the general intention of this paper is to discuss that area of Local Authority responsibility delineated in the 1946 National Health Service Act, and by doing so perhaps to credit the Local Health Services with something more than the backroom status with which they are occasionally endowed in the public estimation of the National Health Service.
RePEc:ohe:shealt:000121 Save to MyIDEAS - Office of Health Economics (1979): Scarce Resources in Health Care
It has often been assumed that an optimum supply of health care facilities could be achieved by the measurement of objective health care needs, and that, then, these resources could be fairly allocated to those requiring them. ... This paper sets out some of these difficulties and offers some tentative solutions to the intractable problem of health care demands running constantly ahead of the supply of health care resources. It has no intention of arguing against the basic concept that National Health Service care should be rationally planned. ... This paper is not primarily concerned with the availability of resources for health services. ... Difficulties in allocating scarce health care resources seem to occur worldwide.
RePEc:ohe:shealt:000303 Save to MyIDEAS - Office of Health Economics (1963): Health Services in Western Europe
Britain is not unique in having a health service. ... In many countries, however, the health services are not operated directly by the central government. ... The health schemes in the European countries usually form part of a general scheme of social security. ... Because of these variations, and because some types of medical care are provided independently by the public health authorities, the term 'health service' has very different meanings in different countries. ... In Britain since the introduction of the health service covering the whole population in 1948 there has been a steady growth in private health insurance.
RePEc:ohe:monogr:000101 Save to MyIDEAS - Office of Health Economics (1981): Trends in European Health Spending
In Europe, as in other developed countries, health expenditures have recently been rising proportionately faster than national wealth. ... Figure 1 shows that in each of the majorEuropean countries the proportion spent on health rose substantially in this period. ... There are four good reasons to suppose that the levelling off in the growth of health expenditure is a sound prediction. First, all governments are now worried about the apparently uncontrolled rise in health service spending. ... No one can expect to achieve perfect health any more than they can achieve perfection in other fields.
RePEc:ohe:briefg:000325 Save to MyIDEAS - Office of Health Economics (1978): Health Care Research Expenditure
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 an allowance for less readily identifiable contributions it may be estimated that total health care research spending is currently approaching the £300 million mark. ... Health care research embraces a diverse range of activities including, for example, fundamental attempts to achieve a better understanding of disease processes, studies of the health care delivery system and the development of specific new medicines.
RePEc:ohe:briefg:000281 Save to MyIDEAS - Office of Health Economics (1975): Infant and Child Health
This trend was, however, becoming gradually evident during the latter stages of the nineteenth century as a result of the changes in the economic and social environment (housing improvements, better sanitation, nutrition and clothing-factors, among others, which resulted in the elimination of many sources of infection and increased resistance to disease). ... Since then the rapid development of new and effective antibiotics in addition to the establishment of the NHS, the evolution of the welfare services and the significant advances in the medical speciality of paediatrics have all contributed to the vast post-war improvements in infant and child health.
RePEc:ohe:briefg:000253 Save to MyIDEAS - Office of Health Economics (1972): Evaluation in the Health Services
Proceedings of a symposium HELD AT THE Royal College of General Practitioners on Thursday 21 October 1971 One of the main ideas behind a symposium on 'Evaluation in the Health Services' was to help establish a fruitful dialogue between clinicians, planners, sociologists, economists and others. All of these might share a common awareness of the need to subject the operations of the health services to critical examination, but it was felt that communications between different disciplines, particularly between clinicians on the one hand and social scientists and planners on the other, could be much improved.
RePEc:ohe:monogr:000207 Save to MyIDEAS