Eileen M. Brooke | |
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Born | 1905 |
Died | 1989 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics, public health, mental health |
Institutions | General Register Office (England & Wales), World Health Organization |
Eileen Minnie Brooke (1905 – 1989) was a British statistician and health policy professional.
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 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]
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]
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]
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Eileen M. Brooke | |
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Born | 1905 |
Died | 1989 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics, public health, mental health |
Institutions | General Register Office (England & Wales), World Health Organization |
Eileen Minnie Brooke (1905 – 1989) was a British statistician and health policy professional.
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 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]
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]
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]
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