Epidemiology and policies for health planning is a guide to health planning according to need. It describes the health measures and sources of data available in England and sets out in detail the patterns of health and disease of different health care groups in the population, and what opportunities there ...
This workshop was organised to gain factual information about the prevalence and cost of pressure sores to health districts. It was hoped to identify districts where they were already monitoring this, with the aim of identifying positive ways of reducing the problem in the future. The document includes an outline ...
The King's Fund organised this conference because of its interest in and concern about the relationships between "epidemiology" and developments in service planning in the NHS. The number of applications to attend the conference indicated this interest was widely shared. To many, epidemiology and service planning appear to proceed in ...