NOTE THAT THE READING LIST WILL BE UPDATED CONTINUALLY
1. A Stevens, J Raftery, J Mant. An introduction to HCNA. The epidemiological approach to health care needs assessment. In Health Care needs Assessments 2004, Radicliffe Publishing, Oxford. pp 1-16 Online
2. Health Needs Assessment in Practice. John Wright (ed) BMJ Books 1998.
3. Ten statistical highlights in global public health. WHO 2007. Online
4. F Sassi. Calculating QALYs, comparing QALY and DALY calculations. Health Policy and Planning Advance Access, published on July 28, 2006 Health Policy Plan. 2006 21: 402-408;Subscription
5. I Rudan, J Lawn et al. Gaps in policy-relevant information on burden of disease in children: a systematic review. Lancet 2005; 365: 2031–40 Subscription
6. R Bhopal. Concepts of Epidemiology. Oxford University Press 2002. Chapter 8: Presentation and interpretation of epidemiological data on risk. (handout)
7. R Beaglehole, R Bonita, Kjellstr?m. Basic Epidemiology. World Health Organization, Geneva. Chapter 2: Measuring health and disease. (handout)
8. D Mont Measuring health and disability Lancet 2007; 369: 1658–63 Subscription
9. Vendhan Gajalakshmi1 and Richard Peto Commentary: Verbal autopsy procedure for adult deaths. International Journal of Epidemiology 2006;35:748–750 Subscription
10. G Yang, Ch Rao, Jiemin Ma, Lijun Wang, Xia Wan, Guillermo Dubrovsky and Alan D Lopez. Validation of verbal autopsy procedures for adult deaths in China. International Journal of Epidemiology 2006;35:741–748 Subscription
11. CD Mathers, DM Fat, M Inoue et al. Counting the dead and what they died from: an assessment of the global status of cause of death data. Bull World Health Organ 2005; 83: 171-7. Subscription
12. P W Setel, O Sankoh, Ch Rao, V A. Velkoff, C Mathers, Y Gonghuan, Y Hemed, P Jha, & A D. Lopez. Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2005;83:611-617. Subscription
13. Jacques Vallin. Commentary: ‘Epidemiologic transition’ interrupted or sweep to the second stage of ‘health transition’? Int J Epidem 2007, 30 April, 1-3 Subscription
14. J Ties Boerma, Sally K Stansfield. Health Statistics 1.Health statistics now: are we making the right investments?Lancet 2007; 369: 779–86 Subscription
15. Ch J L Murray. Health Statistics 2. Towards good practice for health statistics: lessons from the Millennium Development Goal health indicators. Lancet 2007; 369: 862–73. Subscription
16. J Walker, J Bryce, R E Black. Health Statistics 3. Interpreting health statistics for policymaking: the story behind the headlines. Lancet 2007; 369: 956–63. Subscription
17. C Abou Zahr, S Adjei, Ch Kanchanachitra. Health Statistics 4. From data to policy: good practices and cautionary tales. Lancet 2007; 369: 1039–46 Subscription
18. Better health statistics are possible. Comment. The Lancet. Vol 367 January 21, 2006. Subscription
19. J Lynch, G D Smith. A LIFE COURSE APPROACH TO CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY. Annu. Rev. Public Health 2005. 26:1–35. Subscription
20. AR Omran. The epidemiologic transition: a theory of the epidemiology of population change. Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly (1971) 49:509–38, reprinted in The Milbank Quarterly 83 (4), 731–757. Subscription
21. R E Black, SMorris, J Bryce. Where and why are 10 million children dying every year? THE LANCET, Vol 361, June 28, 2003, 2226-2234 Subscription
22. Oeppen, J. & J. Vaupel (2002) Broken limits to life expectancy, Science , May 10; 296(5570): 1029-31. Subscription
23. D. Chris Wilson (2001): On the Scale of Global Demographic Convergence 1950-2000. Population and Development Review 27 (1), 155–171. Subscription
24. E. Ronald Lee. (2003) The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change. Journal of Economic Perspectives 17:4, 167 Subscription
25. J Bongaarts. The End of the Fertility Transition in the Developed World, Population and Development Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 419-443 Subscription
26. JAMES F. FRIES. The compression of morbidity. The Milbank Quarterly. Volume 83 Issue 4 Page 801-823, December 2005 Subscription
27. P C Smith,. 2007. Formula funding of Public Services. London and New York: Routledge. Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5. Handouts, incl. Examples
28. Lopez, Alan. D. et al. (2006)Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. The Lancet Subscription