1. Buzby JC & T Roberts. ERS updates U.S. foodborne disease costs for seven pathogens
     Food Review, USDA, Economic Research Service,
     Sept-Dec. 1996, pp. 20-25.
     For more details - Bacterial Foodborne Disease: Medical Costs and Productivity Losses.
     JC. Buzby, T Roberts, C T Jordan Lin, JM MacDonald.
     Agricultural Economics Report No. (AER741) 100 pp, August 1996

2.Global Health -- A New Paradigm for a New Era. CDC - Melinda Moore.
   This link is not valid anymore,
    but explore the other links from the CDC Office of Global Health
   http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/globalhealth/

3. Burden of Disease Unit, Center for Population and Development Studies at the
   Harvard School of Public Health: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/bdu/
     Go to: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/bdu/gbdmain.html
     And then to: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/bdu/summary.html
     Read the introduction, scan chapter.1, and glance at the other chapters.

    This is an example of the transiency of web sites (and research centers). With the movement of the Director
     of the unit to Columbia University - most of the links do not work. Instead go
     to: http://www.cghed.columbia.edu/programs.htm
     and check out some of the information and links there.

Background readings

1. Declaration of Alma Ata. Int'l Conf. on Primary Health care, 1978.

2. A.W.Stott 2003. Costs and Benefits of Preventing Animal Diseases:
A review focusing on endemic diseases