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          The Institute has just concluded a series of workshops on National Burden of Disease Estimation. These workshops were attended by 38 ICMR scientists.

          Following the publication of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) results (World Bank, 1993; Murray and Lopez, 1994, 1996, WHO, 1999), both individuals and organisations committed to health policy are hoping to gain insights from comprehensive assessment of disease burden at national and sub-national levels. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a Global Program on Evidence and Information for Health Policy. Burden of disease estimates, namely disability adjusted life expectancy, and disability adjusted life years (DALY) were included by the WHO in the World Health Report (WHR) 2000

          The Institute of Health Systems has been working since 1994 to build capacity for estimating disease burden. The Institute has estimated burden of disease in Andhra Pradesh during the 1990s. Other burden of disease estimation related research at the Institute include work on cause of death reporting systems, cause of death studies, health state valuationand health system responsiveness measurement.

1. To familiarise with the burden of disease measurement concepts.
2. Basic understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of the work and inputs from demography, epidemiology, health status measurement, etc.
3. Computational steps for estimation of disease burden will be explained.
4. Data inputs for estimation of disease burden will be identified. National data resources will be highlighted against the overall data requirement for burden of disease estimation.
5. Practical skills for computation of various burden of disease measures like the disability adjusted life years (DALY) and disability adjusted life expectancy.

1. This series of two workshops were organised primarily for the scientists from various laboratories of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

1. Scientists sponsored by the ICMR should have sponsorship letter from the Director of the Institute concerned. Directors of ICMR Institutions are advised to refer to the communications from ICMR headquarters. Dr. Lalit Kant, Senior Dy.DG is coordinating this programme.
2. Candidates should fill in the registration form or send a copy of their detailed biodata. Their biodata helped us better plan for the course.
3. ICMR Headquarters had made arrangements for accommodation of their scientists at the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad.
4. No course fee is required to be paid by ICMR sponsored candidates. The ICMR headquarters has undertaken to pay their course fee.
5. For other candidates, the course fee of US$ 1500 and accommodation charges of US$ 500 per participant will be payable by the candidate or their sponsor. As the ICMR scientists have a priority, we can not guarantee availability of seats. Hence please do not send the course fee until you receive confirmation from us about acceptance in principle of your registration. Payment will have to arranged thereafter but before the registration dead line.
6. Payment mode: By Institutional check, or demand draft drawn in favour of "Institute of Health System" payable at Hyderabad.
7. Send personal details and amount to:The Training Services Officer,Institute of Health Systems,HACA Bhavan, Hyderabad, AP 500004, India

           If the reference year coincides with a census year, then population data from that census. If the reference year falls in an inter censal period, population data from censuses before and after the reference year.

Age group	Census year			Census year
	Female	Male	ALL	Female	Male	ALL
0 - 1
1 - 4
5 - 9
60 - 64
65 - 69
70+
ALL

Mortality and population composition data from latest SRS:
Age group	Census year			Census year
	Female	Male	ALL	Female	Male	ALL
0 - 1
1 - 4
5 - 9
60 - 64
65 - 69
70+
ALL

1. Estimation of burden of disease is an inter disciplinary work. We will be providing you with reading material in the workshop. However, you will need to refer to some basic texts in the area of demography, and epidemiology frequently. In addition you will need to refer certain publications frequently used by the community of scientists working on burden of disease estimation. We give below a list of such references thought to be useful by us. Some of these publications may already be in your library. But some may not be there. We suggest that you ask your librarian to check the list and take advance action to acquire the ones that may not already be in the library. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list. This list is what occurred to us at the time of designing the programme for the workshop. Additional information about useful references and reading material will be made available at the time of the workshop.
2. Suggested readings on burden of disease and summary measures of population health status:
1. Murray Christopher J.L. and Lopez Alan D., Editors. The global burden of disease. A comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020. Boston: Harvard School of Public Health; 1996.
2. Murray Christopher J.L. and Lopez Alan D. Global health statistics. A compendium of incidence, prevalence and mortality estimates for over 200 conditions. Boston: Harvard School of Public Health; 1996.
3. Murray Christopher J.L. and Lopez Alan D. Health Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction. Boston, MA: Harvard School of Public Health; 1998. Note: Distributed by the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA02138, USA.
4. World Bank. World development report 1993. Investing in health. New York: Oxford university press; 1993.
5. WHO. The World Health Report 2000. Health Systems: Improving Performance. Geneva: World Health Organisation; 2000.
6. Mahapatra Prasanta. Estimating national burden of disease: sensitivity to local data. (The burden of disease in Andhra Pradesh, 1990s.). Hyderabad: IHS Publications, HACA Bhavan, Hyderabad, AP 500004, India; 2000
3. Some text books in demography:
1. Newell Colin. Methods and models in demography. New York: Guilford Press; 1988.
2. Shryock Henry S.; Siegel Jacob S., and Stockwell Edward g. The methods and materials of demography. San Diego: Academic Press Inc.; 1976.
3. Chiang Chin Long. The Life Table and its Applications. Florida: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company; 1984.
4. United Nations. Manual X. Indirect techniques for demographic estimation. New York: United Nations; 1983.
   
4. Some text books in epidemiology:
1. MacMahon Brian and Trichopolos Dimitrios. Epidemiogy: Principles & Methods. Second edition. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company; 1996.
2. Walker A. M. Observation and inference: an introduction to the methods of epidemiolgy. USA: Epidemiology Resources Inc.; 1991
3. Beaglehole R.; Bonita R. , and Kjellstrom T. Basic epidemiology. WHO; 1993.
4. Hennekens Charles H. and Buring Julie E. Epidemiology in medicine. Boston: Little Brown and Co.; 1987.