MONICA Monograph and Multimedia Sourcebook

Tunstall-Pedoe H, editor. Prepared by Tunstall-Pedoe H, Kuulasmaa K, Tolonen H, Davidson M, Mendis S with 64 other contributors for The WHO MONICA Project. MONICA Monograph and Multimedia Sourcebook. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2003. ISBN 92 4 156223 4.

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  • Pages, i-xix (pdf, 576 KB)
    • Title page
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Contributors
    • Welcome to the Monograph from Minneapolis
    • Congratulations!
    • MONICA and the World Health Organization
    • MONICA: the European Contribution
    • Editor’s Introduction
    • Glossary, Abbreviations and Nicknames
  • Pages 1-40 (pdf, 1311 KB)
    • Background, Development and Organization of MONICA
    • Administrative Data
  • Pages 41-82 (pdf, 1220 KB)
    • Coronary-Event Registration and Coronary Care
    • Stroke Registration
    • Population Surveys
    • Data Handling, Quality Assessment and Publication
  • Pages 83-90 (pdf, 344 KB)
    • MONICA Optional Studies
  • Pages 91-109 (pdf, 1175 KB)
    • MONICA Populations (Australia ... Iceland)
  • Pages 110-128 (pdf, 1114 KB)
    • MONICA Populations (Italy ... Yugoslavia and Former MONICA populations)
  • Pages 129-156 (pdf, 436 KB)
    • MONICA Publications
  • Pages 157-197 (pdf, 1327 KB)
    • Monica Graphics
      • Populations, data collection and official mortality
      • Coronary events: incidence, case fatality and mortality rates
      • Strokes: incidence, case fatality and mortality rates
      • Risk factors: daily cigarette smoking
  • Pages 198-238 (pdf, 1091 KB)
    • Monica Graphics
      • Risk factors: systolic blood pressure
      • Risk factors: total blood cholesterol
      • Risk factors: obesity, body mass index
      • Risk factors: risk-factor score
      • Risk factors: risk-factor quality scores
      • Eight evidence-based treatments in coronary care
      • Hypotheses: coronary disease and coronary risk factors
      • Hypotheses: stroke and stroke risk factors
      • Hypotheses: coronary care
  • Pages 239-244 (pdf, 234 KB)
    • Appendix
    • Index
    • Introduction to the CD-ROMs
  • CD-ROMs

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