1. General; introduction and covering more lectures
? Lynch J, G D Smith. A life cource approach to chronic disease epidemiology. Annu. Rev. Public Health 2005. 26:1–35. Subscription.
? Stevens A, 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.
? Ten statistical highlights in global public health. WHO 2007. Online.
? Wright John (ed). Health Needs Assessment in Practice. BMJ Books 1998. Selected material will be on Class Fronter. The book can also be borrowed from one of the student advisors' offices..
2. Epidemiology
? Abou Zahr C,S Adjei, Ch Kanchanachitra. Health Statistics 4. From data to policy: good practices and cautionary tales. Lancet 2007; 369: 1039–46 . Subscription.
? Beaglehole R, R Bonita, Kjellstr?m. Basic Epidemiology. World Health Organization, Geneva. Chapter 2: Measuring health and disease. (handout ).
? Better health statistics are possible. Comment. The Lancet. Vol 367 January 21, 2006. Subscription.
? Black RE, S Morris, J Bryce. Where and why are 10 million children dying every year? The Lancet, Vol 361, June 28, 2003, 2226-2234 . Subscription.
? Boerma J Ties, Sally K Stansfield. Health Statistics 1.Health statistics now: are we making the right investments? Lancet 2007; 369: 779–86. Subscription.
? 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.
? Mathers CD, 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.
? Mont D: Measuring health and disability Lancet 2007; 369: 1658–63 Subscription. Subscription.
? Murray ChJL. Health Statistics 2. Towards good practice for health statistics: lessons from the Millennium Development Goal health indicators. Lancet 2007; 369: 862–73. Subscription.
? Rudan I, J Lawn et al. Gaps in policy-relevant information on burden of disease in children: a systematic review. Lancet 2005; 365: 2031–40 . Subscription.
? Setel P W, 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.
? Vallin Jacques. Commentary: ‘Epidemiologic transition’interrupted or sweep to the second stage of ‘health transition’? Int J Epidem 2007, 30 April, 1-3 . Subscription.
? Vendhan Gajalakshmi1 and Richard Peto Commentary: Verbal autopsy procedure for adult deaths. International Journal of Epidemiology 2006;35:748–750 . Subscription.
? Walker J, J Bryce, R E Black. Health Statistics 3. Interpreting health statistics for policymaking: the story behind the headlines. Lancet 2007; 369: 956–63. Subscription.
Demography
? Bongarts J. The End of the Fertility Transition in the Developed World, Population and Development Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 419-443 . Subscription.
? Fries, JF. The compression of morbidity. The Milbank Quarterly. Volume 83 Issue 4 Page 801-823, December 2005. Subscription.
? Oeppen, J. & J. Vaupel (2002) Broken limits to life expectancy, Science, May 10; 296(5570): 1029-31. Subscription.
? Omran AR. 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.
? Wilson Chris D. (2001): On the Scale of Global Demographic Convergence 1950-2000. Population and Development Review 27 (1), 155–171. Subscription.
Chronical neurological disease as case
? Bolmsj? I, Hermerén G. Interviews with patients, family and caregivers in amyotrophic laterla sclerosis: comparing needs. J Pall Care 2001; 17: 236-40. Subscription.
? Bromberg MB et al. A timeline for predicting durable medical equipment needs and interventions for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients. Amyotroph Lateral Scler 2009 . Subscription.
? Williams MT et al. ALS: Family caregiver needs and quality of life. Amyotroph Lateral Scler 2008; 9: 279-86. Subscription.
Need and resource allocation
? Smith PC. 2007. Formula funding of Public Services. London and New York: Routledge. Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5. Handouts, incl. Examples.
Technology and expectation
? Friedberg RC, Weiss RL. Future trends. Clin Lab Med. 2007, Dec; 27(4):931-6. Subscription.
? Stacey CL et al: Demanding patient or demanding encounter? A case study of a cancer clinics. Social Science and Medicine, 2009, Vol 69, 5, 729-737. Subscription.