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EPI 415: Epidemiology for Developing Countries |
| Winter Quarter, 2008 |
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Guide to Course Material |
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Course
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Class
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Software Training Manual: |
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learn Excel (the Microsoft spreadsheet program), you will use a
self-guided instruction manual, presented below
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1/8/08 |
Software Training Manual (35 pages) |
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Graded Problems: |
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The
course features two problems and a final project to be done using MS Excel spreadsheet
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1/11/08 |
Problem One |
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| 10 | 2/7/08 | Problem One -- Suggested Answers |
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| 11 | 2/12/08 | ||
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| Partially completed DHLL Spreadsheet for Problem Two (see below) | -- | ||
| 15 | 2/27/08 | Problem Two -- Suggested Answers |
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| 16 | 2/28/08 | Final Examination Problem |
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| -- | 3/26/08 | Final Examination Problem -- Suggested Answers |
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Excel Programs: |
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The
course presents several MS Excel programs of use by epidemiologists.
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Excel Spreadsheet Program XLS | |
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| 11 | 2/12/08 | Partially completed DHLL Spreadsheet for Problem Two |
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Vaccine Effectiveness (VE) |
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| 18 | 3/6/08 | Tetanus |
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| 19 | 3/11/08 | ARI |
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Assigned Reading: |
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The
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1/8/08 |
Smith, R.D. and LMacKellar, L. Global public goods and the global health agenda: problems, priorities and potential. Globalization and Health 3(9), 1-7, 2007. |
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Delisle, H., Roberts, J.H., Munro, M., Jones, L., Gyorkos, T.W. The role of NGOs in global health research for development. Health Res Policy Systems 3(1), 3-24, 2005. |
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| Labont, R., Speigel, J. Setting global health research priorities. BMJ 326; 722-723, 2003. |
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Murray, C.J.L. Towards good practice for health statistics: lessons from the Millennium Development Goal health indicators. Lancet 329, 862-873, 2007. |
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Victora, C.G. Measuring Progress Towards Equitable Child Survival. Where are the Epidemiologists? Epidemiology 18,669–672, 2007. |
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Black, R.E., Morris, S.S., Bryce, J. Where and why are 10 million children dying every year? Lancet 361, 2226–34, 2003. |
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Victora, C.G., Black, R.E., Bryce, J. Learning from new initiatives in maternal and child health. Lancet 370, 1113-4, 2007. |
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| 5 | 1/22/08 | Walsh, J.A. and Warren, K.S.: Selective Primary Health Care: An Interim Strategy for Disease Control in Developing Countries. Social Science and Medicine 14C (Medical Economics), 145-163, 1980. |
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| Wibulpolprasert, Suwit, Tangcharoensathien, Viroj, Kanchanachitra, Churnrurtai. Three decades of primary health care: reviewing the past and defining the future. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 86(1), 3, 2008. SUPPLEMENT |
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| 6 | 1/24/08 | Chen, L.C.: Primary health care in developing countries: Overcoming operational, technical, and social barriers. The Lancet 2,1260-1265, 1986. |
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| 7 | 1/29/08 |
Cullen, J.R., Chitprarop, U., Doberstyn, E.B., and Sombatwattanangkul, K.: An epidemiological early warning system for malaria control in northern Thailand. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 62, 107-114, 1984. |
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Frerichs, R.R.: Epidemiologic surveillance in developing countries. Annual Review of Public Health 12, 257-80, 1991. |
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| 8 | 1/31/08 | Stalioraityte, E., Pangonyte, D., Kazlauskaite, D. Reliability of cause-specific mortality rate statistics: case of Lithuania. Public Health 119(9):799-807, 2005. |
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| Soleman, N. , Chandramohan, D., Shibuya, K. Verbal autopsy: current practices and challenges. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 84(3), 239-45, 2006. |
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Baiden, F., Baiden F, Bawah A, Biai S, Binka F, Boerma T, Byass P, Chandramohan D, Chatterji S, Engmann C, Greet D, Jakob R, Kahn K, Kunii O, Lopez AD, Murray CJ, Nahlen B, Rao C, Sankoh O, Setel PW, Shibuya K, Soleman N, Wright L, Yang G. Setting international standards for verbal autopsy. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85(8):570-1, 2007. |
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| 9-10 | 2/5&7/08 | Bennett, K.J., Tugwell, P., Sackett, D., and Haynes, B.: Chapter 27: Relative Risks, Benefits, and Cost of Intervention. in Warren, K.S. and Mahmoud, A.A.F. (eds): Tropical and Geographical Medicine, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1990, pp. 205-228. |
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| 11 | 2/12/08 | Romeder, J-M and McWhinnie, J.R.: Potential Years of Life Lost between Ages 1 and 70: An Indicator of Premature Mortality for Health Planning. International Journal of Epidemiology 6, 143-151, 1977. |
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Ghana Health Assessment Project Team. A Quantitative Method of Assessing the Health Impact of Different Diseases in Less Developed Countries. International Journal of Epidemiology 10, 73-80, 1981. |
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Meltzer, M.I. Introduction to health economics for physicians. Lancet 358, 993-998, 2001. |
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| WER. Anonymous. Cost effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines and other interventions for diarrhoeal diseases: meeting report 2006. Weekly Epidemiological Record 81 (37), 350-353, 2006. |
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| 14 | 2/21/08 | Chen, R.T. and Orenstein, W.A. Epidemiologic methods in immunization programs. Epidemiologic Reviews 18(2), 99-117, 1996. |
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| Torvaldsen, S., McIntyre, P.B. Observational methods in epidemiologic assessment of vaccine effectiveness. Communicable Disease Intelligence. 26(3), 451-7, 2002. |
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| 15 | 2/26/08 | Vijayaraghavan, M., Lievano, F., Cairns, L., Wolfson, L., Nandy, R., Ansari, A., Golaz, A., Mashal, T., Salama, P. Economic evaluation of measles catch-up and follow-up campaigns in Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003. Disasters 30(2), 256-69, 2006. |
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Lopez, A.D. The evolution of the Global Burden of Disease framework for disease, injury and risk factor quantification: developing the evidence base for national, regional and global public health action. Globalization and Health 1(1), 5 (22 Apr) 2005. |
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| 17 | 3/4/08 | McKenna, M.T., Michaud, C.M., Murray, C.J., Marks, J.S. Assessing the burden of disease in the United States using disability-adjusted life years. American J Preventive Medicine 28(5), 415-23, 2005. |
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| Chapman, G., Hansen, K.S., Jelsma, J., Ndhlovu, C., Piotti, B., Byskov, J., and Vos, T. The burden of disease in Zimbabwe in 1997 as measured by disability-adjusted life years lost. Tropical Medicine and International Health 11(5), 660-671, 2006. |
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Enarson, P.M., Enarson, D.A., Gie, R. Management of the child with cough or difficult breathing. International J Tuberculosis Lung Diseases 9(10):1083-1087, 2005. |
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Frerichs, R.R., Miller, R.A. and Sutrisna, B. Epidemiologic model for focusing research on ARI intervention strategies among Indonesian children. Presented at the American Public Health Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 25, 1989. |
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Miller, R.A. and Frerichs, R.R.: An integrated approach to operations research for strengthening family planning programs: a case example in Kenya. International Journal of Community Health Education 13(3): 183-199, 1993. |
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| 20 | 3/13/08 | Mathers, C.D., Loncar, D. Projections of global mortality and burden of disease from 2002 to 2030. PLoS Medicine 3(11), 2011-2030, 2006. |
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Lectures Outlines and Powerpoint Presentations (if available): |
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Most of the lectures will have an outline (in PDF format), to be printed and brought to class
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1/8/08 |
Course introduction |
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| 2 | 1/10/08 | Health in the context of international development |
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Health and development indicators |
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| 4 | 1/17/08 |
Health status and key interventions |
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Strategies for disease control (1) |
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| 1/24/08 | Strategies for disease control (2) |
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| 7 | 1/29/08 |
Uses of routinely-derived epidemiologic data |
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| 8 | 1/31/08 |
Uses and limitations of mortality data |
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| 9-10 | 2/5&7/08 |
Establishing program priorities based on burden of illness - A |
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| 11 | 2/12/08 |
Measuring the impact of illness (1) - potential years of life lost |
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| 12 | 2/14/08 |
Measuring the impact of illness (2) - days of health life lost (or gained) |
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| 13 | 2/19/08 |
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses |
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| 14 | 2/21/08 |
Measuring effectiveness of immunization programs |
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| 15 | 2/26/08 |
Costs and effectiveness of immunization programs |
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| 16-17 | 2/28/08 |
Global Burden of Disease Study |
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Disability adjusted life years |
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| 18-19 | 3/6/08 | Spreadsheet models for focusing research on high yield |
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| 20 | 3/13/08 | Future health problems in developing countries |
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below) 
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manual and on your own, start learning Excel. You will need the
program for the Problem One handout to be distributed on January 16,
2007.