MONICA, monograph, and multimedia sourcebook
Subtitle: world's largest study of heart disease, stroke, risk factors, and population trends 1979-2002
By: edited by Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe; prepared by Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe ... [et al.].
Contributors: Tunstall-Pedoe, Hugh.; World Health Organization. MONICA Project
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: WHO MONICA Project -- Bibliography.; Health surveys.; Heart -- Diseases -- Epidemiology.; Cerebrovascular disease -- Epidemiology.; Heart -- Diseases -- Risk factors.; Cerebrovascular disease -- Risk factors.; Heart -- Diseases -- Statistics.; Cerebrovascular disease -- Statistics.; Heart -- Diseases -- Bibliography.; Cerebrovascular disease -- Bibliography.
Genres: Statistics.; Bibliography.
Other titles: MONICA
Description: Designed for a wide readership interested in heart disease, stroke, lifestyle, risk factors, public health policy and epidemiology. It explains what the MONICA study was about, describes participating populations, and contains abstracts of MONICA publications plus 80 graphics of the key MONICA results, with explanatory notes. In addition two CD-ROMs incorporate MONICA documents and quality assessment reports; data books tabulating all the results; slide shows of the main MONICA topics; and lastly a 20% subset of the database for explanatory analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.