OTHER READINGS FOR FURTHER STUDY

An engaging primer on epidemiology:

Epidemiology for the uninitiated. BMJ (accessed 1/2/2018)

http://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers/publications/epidemiology-uninitiated/1-what-epidemiology

Online text and self-study course on the basics of epidemiology:

Principles of epidemiology in public health practice, third edition, an introduction to applied epidemiology and biostatistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (accessed 1/2/2018)

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6914

Brief discussion of the population health and population medicine:

What Is Population Health? Improving Population Health - Policy. Practice. Research. David Kindig. (accessed 1/2/2018) (See links to further resources.)

Modern concepts of population health and meaningful outcomes:

Kottke TE, Gallagher JM, Rauri S, Tillema JO, Pronk NP, Knudson SM. New Summary Measures of Population Health and Well-Being for Implementation by Health Plans and Accountable Care Organizations. Prev Chronic Dis 2016;13:160224. doi: 10.5888/pcd13.160224

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2016/16_0224.htm

Infographic on COPC - Community-Oriented Primary Care:

Teaching Population Health: Community-Oriented Primary Care Revisited: Liaw W, Rankin J, Bazemore A, Ventres W. Academic Medicine. 2017;92(3):419. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001552.

http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2017/03000/Teaching_Population_Health___Community_Oriented.39.aspx

Bodemer T, Sinsky C. From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider. Annals of Family Medicine 2014;12:573-576. doi: 10.1370/afm.1713.

http://www.annfammed.org/content/12/6/573.full.pdf+html

GLOBAL DATA SUMMARY AND VISUALIZATION TOOLS

Use this online tool to visualize the distribution of major causes of death across the USA over the past 35 years. UW Institute of Health Metrics. (accessed 1/2/2018)

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/mortality-rates-united-states/cardiovascular2/#2014

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at UW Medicine provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them.

http://www.healthdata.org/about

Global Health Data Exchange. GHDx, the world’s most comprehensive catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data.

http://ghdx.healthdata.org

Global Burden of Disease Project. GBD is the most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. It is the product of a global research collaborative and quantifies the impact of hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors in countries around the world.

http://www.healthdata.org/gbd

Global Burden of Disease Compare - VIZ HUB. Power powerful tool to visualize the global burden of disease over time.

https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/