Biography:Eileen Brooke

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Short description: British statistician


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

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

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

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

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

  • "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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eileen Minnie Brooke (-1989) papers, Queen Mary University of London.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Brooke, Eileen M. (1946-10-05). "Battle Exhaustion". British Medical Journal 2 (4474): 491–493. ISSN 0007-1447. 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. 
  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. 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. 
  6. ↑ (in en) The Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. H.M. Stationery Office. 1954. pp. 308. https://books.google.com/books?id=9XcYAAAAMAAJ&q=%22E.%20M.%20Brooke%22%20statistician&pg=PA308. 
  7. ↑ (in en) The Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. H.M. Stationery Office. 1954. pp. 309. https://books.google.com/books?id=9XcYAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Miss%20E.%20Brooke%22%20statistics&pg=PA309. 
  8. ↑ General Register Office (1958) (in en). The Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 215. https://books.google.com/books?id=FoMYAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Miss+E.+M.+Brooke%22&pg=RA3-PA215. 
  9. ↑ Office, Great Britain General Register (1963) (in en). The Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. H.M. Stationery Office. https://books.google.com/books?id=2qoXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Miss%20Brooke%22%20%22World%20Health%20Organization%22&pg=RA2-PA309. 
  10. ↑ Logan, W. P. D; Brooke, Eileen M (1957) (in en). The survey of sickness, 1943 to 1952. London: H.M. Stationery Off.. OCLC 504143. 
  11. ↑ Brooke, Eileen M (1963) (in en). A cohort study of patients first admitted to mental hospitals in 1954 and 1955.. London: H.M. Stationery Off.. OCLC 536223. 
  12. ↑ (in en) The Registrar General's Statistical Review of England and Wales. [New Annual Series]. 1962. pp. 367. https://books.google.com/books?id=zOthAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Eileen%20M.%20Brooke%22&pg=PA367. 
  13. ↑ Brooke, Eileen M (1967) (in en). 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: pp. 10. 1964-04-22. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47382457/mental-health-conference-planned-at/. 
  15. ↑ Raeburn, H. B. (1980-08-01). "Book Reviews" (in en). Journal of Public Health 2 (3): 267. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a043342. ISSN 1741-3842. https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/2/3/267/1554152. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 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" (in en). Psychological Medicine 2 (4): 422–425. doi:10.1017/S0033291700045244. ISSN 1469-8978. PMID 4656537. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/who-international-pilot-study-of-schizophrenia1/F669EEDC4A065A453A865D5F28877167. 
  19. ↑ Brooke, Eileen M; World Health Organization; Regional Office for Europe (1973) (in en). 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 (1975-06-01). "Book Reviews" (in en). International Journal of Epidemiology 4 (2): 147. doi:10.1093/ije/4.2.147. ISSN 0300-5771. https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/4/2/147/808951. 
  22. ↑ Brooke, Eileen M (1974) (in en). Suicide and attempted suicide. Geneva: World Health Organization. 5–127. ISBN 978-92-4-130058-2. OCLC 1102693. 
  23. ↑ Brooke, Eileen M; Council of Europe; Committee of Ministers (1975) (in en). 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 (1961-04-01). "Trends in the Mental Hospital Population and Their Effect on Future Planning" (in en). The Lancet 277 (7179): 710–713. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(61)91737-8. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 13777438. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(61)91737-8/abstract. 
  26. ↑ Brooke, Eileen M.; Glatt, M. M. (October 1964). "More and More Barbiturates" (in en-US). Medicine, Science and the Law 4 (4): 277–282. doi:10.1177/002580246400400408. ISSN 0025-8024. PMID 14246767. 
  27. ↑ Brooke, Eileen M.; Mabry, John H. (1964-09-01). "Problems in determining the needs for mental health facilities in britain" (in en). 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" (in en). Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 25 (5part1): 493–498. doi:10.1002/cpt1979255part1493. ISSN 1532-6535. PMID 436353. 



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