Epidemiology

This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.

RELATED SITES

- Health statistics and health information systems
- Weekly Epidemiological Record
- Global health atlas
- Integrated disease surveillance (African Region)
- Global Salm-Surv
- WHOSIS (WHO Statistical Information Service)
- World Health Survey
- Burden of disease project
- Burden of disease statistics (including healthy life expectancy)
- Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR)
- Epidemiology (European Region)
- World health statistics 2005
- WHO Global InfoBase: health statistics on chronic disease

FACT SHEETS

- The top 10 causes of death

PUBLICATIONS

- Publications: noncommunicable disease surveillance

RELATED LINKS

- Immunization surveillance, assessment and monitoring
- HIV surveillance, estimations and monitoring and evaluation
- STEPwise approach to surveillance (STEPS)
- SuRF (surveillance of risk factors) report (noncommunicable diseases)
- Useful tools for surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases
- DISMOD software

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