CD-ROMs for MONICA Monograph and Multimedia Sourcebook

WWW-publications from the WHO MONICA Project

Here are copies of the MONICA WWW-publications up to December 2002. The originals can be found at: http://www.ktl.fi/publications/monica.

MONICA Manual

Quality assessment reports

• Quality assessment of demographic data
• Assessment of age, date of examination and survey period
• Participation rates, quality of sampling frames and sampling fractions
• Quality assessment of data on marital status and educational achievement
• Quality assessment of data on smoking behaviour
• Quality assessment of data on hypertension control
• Quality assessment of data on awareness and treatment of high cholesterol
• Quality assessment of data on use of aspirin
• Quality assessment of data on menopausal status and hormones
• Quality assessment of data on blood pressure
• Quality assessment of total cholesterol measurements
• Quality assessment of data on HDL cholesterol
• Quality assessment of weight and height measurements
• Quality assessment of data on waist and hip circumferences
• Quality assessment of coronary event registration data
• Quality assessment of acute coronary care data
• Quality assessment of stroke event registration data
• Stroke event trend quality score

Data books

• Survey data book
• Coronary event registration data book 1980-1995
• Acute coronary care data book for 1981-1995
• Stroke event registration data book 1982-1995

WWW-appendices to papers published in scientific journals

• Varying sensitivity of waist action levels to identify subjects with overweight or obesity in 19 populations of the WHO MONICA Project - tables and figures for waist action level 1
• Estimation of contribution of changes in classical risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations: methodological appendix to a paper published in the Lancet
• Estimation of contribution of changes in coronary care to improving survival, event rates and coronary heart disease mortality across the WHO MONICA Project populations: appendix to a paper published in the Lancet
  • Pharmacological treatment during AMI and in secondary prevention: the scientific evidence
  • Constructing an evidence-based treatment score for relating changes in treatment to changes in mortality, coronary events and case fatality in the WHO MONICA Project
  • Derivation of an acute coronary care quality score for the WHO MONICA Project
  • Definitions of case fatality for coronary events in the WHO MONICA Project
• Do trends in population levels of blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors explain trends in stroke event rates? - methodological appendix to a paper published in Stroke