Week 4 readings

Monitoring & evaluation

• Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Health Systems Strengthening. 3rd Edition. The Global Fund February 2009

Monitoring & evaluation - Useful Websites:

• http://gametlibrary.worldbank.org/

• http://www.who.int/healthmetrics/en/

• http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/

Population projections

• Preston S, Heuveline P & Guillot M (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes, Malden MA: Blackwell, pp.117-129

Population projections - Further reading

• Keilman N (1998). How accurate are the United Nations world population projections? Population and Development Review 24(S): 15-41.

• Newell C (1988). Methods and models in demography, New York: Guilford Press, pp 120-150.

• Population Projections. GDDS II project, The World Bank http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SCBEXTERNAL/Resources/Population_Projections.pdf

• United Nations. 2011. Assumptions underlying the 2010 revision. Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. http://esa.un.org/wpp/Documentation/WPP2010_ASSUMPTIONS_AND_VARIANTS.pdf

Social determinants of health

• Preston S, Heuveline P & Guillot M (2001) Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes, Malden MA: Blackwell, pp. 21-28.

Social determinants of health - Further reading

• Palmore JA & Gardner RW (1994) Measuring Mortality, Fertility and Natural Increase: A Self-Teaching Guide to Elementary Measures, 4th Edition, Honolulu:East-West Center, pp. 9-34.

• Hennekens and Buring. 1987. Epidemiology in Medicine. Pp 70-73; 85-86.

• Ahmad OB, Boschi-Pinto C, Lopez AD, Murray CJL, Lozano R and Inoue M. 2001. Age standardization of rates: A new WHO standard. GPE Discussion Paper Series: No.31. EIP/GPE/EBD, WHO. http://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper31.pdf

• Ezeh AC and Dodoo FN. 2002. Institutional Change and the African Fertility Transition: The Case of Kenya. African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) Working Paper No. 25