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Eileen M. Brooke
Born1905
Died1989
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics, public health, mental health
InstitutionsGeneral Register Office (England & Wales), World Health Organization

Eileen Minnie Brooke (1905 – 1989) was a British statistician and health policy professional.

Education

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Eileen Minnie Brooke attended East London College, earning a B.Sc. in mathematics in 1926, and an M.Sc. in mathematics in 1929. She completed doctoral studies in 1952.[1]

In Great Britain, 1940s–1960s

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In the 1940s, Brooke was based at the E. M. S. Statistical Branch in Norcross, and studied wartime health issues, including battle exhaustion,[2] burns,[3] and gastric ulcers.[4] She was elected a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1943.[5]

In the 1950s, Brooke was a statistician in the Medical Statistics branch of the General Register Office.[6][7] She attended the Second World Congress of Psychiatry in Zürich in 1957, and presented a paper on schizophrenia.[8] She also attended the International Congress on Mental Health in Paris in 1961.[9]

Brooke was co-author of The survey of sickness, 1943 to 1952 (1957, with W. P. D. Logan),[10] and author of A cohort study of patients first admitted to mental hospitals in 1954 and 1955 (1963)[11][12] and A census of patients in psychiatric beds, 1963 (1967).[13]

International work, 1960s–1970s

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Brooke spoke at a mental health conference in Pennsylvania in 1964.[14] She was chief of the Department of Medical Information and Statistics at the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Lausanne.[15][16] She was a collaborating investigator on the World Health Organization's International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia in the late 1960s.[17][18] In 1977 she spoke at an WHO workshop on "the medico-social risks of alcohol consumption" in Luxembourg.[16]

Brooke wrote and edited policy reports for the World Health Organization and other international bodies, including The methodology of psychiatric out-patient data collection (1973),[19] The current and future use of registers in health information systems (1974),[20][21] Suicide and attempted suicide (1974),[22] and Activities in the field of drug dependence (European region) (1975).[23]

Death

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Brooke died in 1989. A colleague wrote in an obituary that "Miss Brooke was precious to WHO's programmes because she was a statistician who liked to assemble data, enjoyed handling them and had the ability to present them without ever losing sight of the broader context in which these data were gathered."[24] Her papers are held in the Mile End Library, Queen Mary University of London.[1]

Selected journal publications

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  • "Battle Exhaustion: Review of 500 Cases from Western Europe" British Medical Journal, 1946[2]
  • "Trends in the mental hospital population and their effect on future planning", The Lancet, 1961. (with G. C. Tooth)[25]
  • "More and More Barbiturates" Medicine, Science and the Law, 1964. (with M. M. Glatt)[26]
  • "Problems in determining the needs for mental health facilities in Britain" Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1964. (with John H. Mabry)[27]
  • "Some Aspects of Suicide in Psychiatric Patients in Southend" The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1968. (with A. A. Robin and Dorothy L. Freeman-Browne)
  • "Judgments of trained observers on adverse drug reactions" Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 1979. (with Sylviane Blanc, Philippe Leuenberg, and Jean-Louis Schelling)[28]
  • "Drug-addiction in the canton of Vaud, 1974–8" Sozial- und Präventivmedizin, 1980. (with A. Delachaux and E. Haller)

References

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  1. ^ a b Eileen Minnie Brooke (-1989) papers, Queen Mary University of London.
  2. ^ a b Brooke, Eileen M. (5 October 1946). "Battle Exhaustion". British Medical Journal. 2 (4474): 491–493. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2057696. PMID 20786947.
  3. ^ Brooke, Eileen M. (1945). "Burns And Their Treatment Among E.M.S. Hospital In-Patients". The British Medical Journal. 1 (4390): 259–260. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 20347818.
  4. ^ Brooke, Eileen M. (1950). "Relative Incidence Of Gastric And Duodenal Ulcers". The British Medical Journal. 2 (4678): 560–561. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.4678.560. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 25358267. PMC 2038276. PMID 15434458.
  5. ^ "Newly elected fellows of the Society". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. 106 (1): 30. 1943. doi:10.2307/2980239. ISSN 0952-8385. JSTOR 2980239.
  6. ^ The Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. H.M. Stationery Office. 1954. p. 308.
  7. ^ The Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. H.M. Stationery Office. 1954. p. 309.
  8. ^ General Register Office (1958). The Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 215.
  9. ^ Office, Great Britain General Register (1963). The Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. H.M. Stationery Office.
  10. ^ Logan, W. P. D; Brooke, Eileen M (1957). The survey of sickness, 1943 to 1952. London: H.M. Stationery Off. OCLC 504143.
  11. ^ Brooke, Eileen M (1963). A cohort study of patients first admitted to mental hospitals in 1954 and 1955. London: H.M. Stationery Off. OCLC 536223.
  12. ^ The Registrar General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. [New Annual Series]. 1962. p. 367.
  13. ^ Brooke, Eileen M (1967). A census of patients in psychiatric beds, 1963. London: H.M.S.O. OCLC 957614.
  14. ^ "Mental Health Conference Planned at Pocono Manor". Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News, Wilkes-Barre Record. 22 April 1964. p. 10. Retrieved 26 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Raeburn, H. B. (1 August 1980). "Book Reviews". Journal of Public Health. 2 (3): 267. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a043342. ISSN 1741-3842.
  16. ^ a b Seminar of the Medico-Social Risks of Alcohol Consumption (World Health Organization, Luxembourg, 1977): 4, 163, 218.
  17. ^ Schizophrenia: A Multinational Study (World Health Organization 1975): 3.
  18. ^ Sartorius, N.; Shapiro, R.; Kimura, M.; Barrett, K. (November 1972). "WHO International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia1". Psychological Medicine. 2 (4): 422–425. doi:10.1017/S0033291700045244. ISSN 1469-8978. PMID 4656537. S2CID 41342582.
  19. ^ Brooke, Eileen M; World Health Organization; Regional Office for Europe (1973). The methodology of psychiatric out-patient data collection; report on a pilot study undertaken for the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization. Copenhagen: Distributed by the Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization. OCLC 8360119.
  20. ^ Brooke, Eileen M. (1974). The current and future use of registers in health information systems. Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 92-4-170008-4. OCLC 1074055.
  21. ^ Mowbray, Derek (1 June 1975). "Book Reviews". International Journal of Epidemiology. 4 (2): 147. doi:10.1093/ije/4.2.147. ISSN 0300-5771.
  22. ^ Brooke, Eileen M (1974). Suicide and attempted suicide. Geneva: World Health Organization. pp. 5–127. ISBN 978-92-4-130058-2. OCLC 1102693. PMID 4479495. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  23. ^ Brooke, Eileen M; Council of Europe; Committee of Ministers (1975). Activities in the field of drug dependence (European region). Strasbourg: Council of Europe, Public Health Division, Ad hoc Committee on Drug Dependence. OCLC 2128439.
  24. ^ "Obituary: Eileen M. Brooke", Psychiatric Bulletin No 13, 159 (1989): 159. DOI: 10.1192/pb.13.3.159
  25. ^ Tooth, G. C.; Brooke, EileenM (1 April 1961). "Trends in the Mental Hospital Population and Their Effect on Future Planning". The Lancet. 277 (7179): 710–713. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(61)91737-8. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 13777438.
  26. ^ Brooke, Eileen M.; Glatt, M. M. (October 1964). "More and More Barbiturates". Medicine, Science and the Law. 4 (4): 277–282. doi:10.1177/002580246400400408. ISSN 0025-8024. PMID 14246767. S2CID 11758931.
  27. ^ Brooke, Eileen M.; Mabry, John H. (1 September 1964). "Problems in determining the needs for mental health facilities in britain". Journal of Chronic Diseases. 17 (9): 773–778. doi:10.1016/0021-9681(64)90006-2. ISSN 0021-9681. PMID 5879150.
  28. ^ Blanc, Sylviane; Leuenberger, Philippe; Berger, Jean-Pierre; Brooke, Eileen M.; Schelling, Jean-Louis (1979). "Judgments of trained observers on adverse drug reactions". Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 25 (5part1): 493–498. doi:10.1002/cpt1979255part1493. ISSN 1532-6535. PMID 436353. S2CID 39887959.
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