MONICA Manual

Manual Acknowledgements

The contribution of the following MONICA principal investigators and consultants is gratefully acknowledged in the preparation and subsequent revisions of the MONICA Manual (formerly issued as the MONICA Protocol and MONICA Manual of Operations):

• Dr Kjell Asplund, Umeċ University Hospital, Umeċ, Sweden
• Professor Robert Beaglehole, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Professor Silas Dodu, Accra, Ghana (Chief WHO CVD Unit 1983-1985)
• Professor F.H.Epstein, Zurich, Switzerland
• Professor Alun Evans, The Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Professor S.P.Fortmann, Stanford University, California, USA
• Dr D.Grafnetter, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic
• Professor Hans-Werner Hense, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
• Professor Michael Hobbs, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
• Dr Martti J Karvonen, Pioppi, Italy
• Dr P.Ofner and Dr A.Madai, National Institute of Cardiology, Budapest, Hungary
• Professor Alessandro Menotti, National Institute of Health, Rome
• Dr Erika Östör, Budapest, Hungary
• Dr Z Pisa, Prague, Czech Republic (also Chief, WHO CVD Unit 1973-1983)
• Professor R.Prineas, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
• Mr Esa Ruokokoski, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
• Dr Susana Sans, Institute of Health Studies, Barcelona, Spain
• Professor Jaakko Tuomilehto, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
• Professor O.Dale Williams, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Special thanks are due to Professor H Tunstall-Pedoe, University of Dundee, Scotland and to Dr Kari Kuulasmaa, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland. Professor Tunstall-Pedoe produced several revisions of the original MONICA Protocol and has been extensively involved in the preparation of the MONICA Manual, and has been Rapporteur of the Project since its inception. Dr Kuulasmaa is Chief Scientist to the Project and Head of the MONICA Data Centre. He has organised the centralisation of all MONICA core collaborative data,  assured their quality and coordinated the analyses since 1984.

The MONICA Project is highly indebted to Mary Jane Watson and Margaret Hill, Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention, WHO who prepared The Manual; and to Tuula Virman-Ojanen, MONICA Data Centre, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, who typed the forms and converted the Manual to HTML for publication on the WWW.