The ISPOR BOOK: Reliability and Validity of Data Sources for Disease and Health Management:

Section 7: INTERNATIONAL – Disease & Health Management around the World
Section Editor: Oliver Mast MSc
Co-Chair: Elizabeth Molsen RN

1. Introduction
2. Canada, Europe & Russia
1. Canada – Amede Gogovor, Richard Lewanczuk, Sara Ahmed & Terrence Montague
2. France - Isabelle Borget & Christos Chouaid
3. Germany – Oliver Mast
4. Greece – Ashish Parekh
5. Netherlands - Kara Suter
6. Scandinavia – Olatunde Aremu, Omid Beiki & Edison Manrique
7. Spain - Jose Manuel Rodriguez Barrios & colleagues
8. Switzerland – Bernard Burnand & Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux
9. United Kingdom – Nalin Payakachat
10. Central and Eastern Europe
1. Croatia – Ljubica Besker
2. Czech Republic - Tomas Sechser, Jiri Vlcek & Domink Tomek
3. Hungary - Tomas Sechser
4. Poland – Tomas Sechser
5. Serbia –  Ljiljana Tasic & Dusica Tasic
6. Slovakia -  Tomas Sechser 
7. Russia – Oleg Borisenko, Pavel Vorobev & colleague


3. Pacific, East & Southern Asia
1. Australia – Sanjoy Roy
2. New Zealand – Carl Asche
3. China – Claudio Faria
4. India – S.K. Gupta, M. Srivastava & M. Dhingra
5. Japan – Claudio Faria
6. S. Korea – Jaewhan Kim
7. Malaysia – Maznah Dahlui & Chiu-Wan Ng
8. Singapore  - Sanjoy Roy
   
   
4. Middle East
1. Israel – Dan Greenberg, Joseph Pliskin & Nadav Davidovitch
2. Jordan -  Mohammed Jabr, Ibrahim Al-Abbadi & Ayman Momani
3. Kuwait – Mona Awadh Hussein
4. Pakistan - Qayyim Said, Sophia Said & Carl Asche
5. Saudi Arabia - Ibrahim Al-Abbadi & colleague
   
   
5. Latin America
1. Argentina – Federico Augustovski & Ezekial Garcia Elorrio
2. Brazil – Cesar Abicalaffe
3. Chile – Jorge Jimenez, Gonzalo Valdivia & Gabriel Bastias
4. Mexico  - Guillermo Melendez
   
   
6. Africa
1. Nigeria – Anthony Eti-Ukwu
2. South Africa – Tienie Stander
3. Sudan – Isam Baloul
   
   
7. The ISPOR Digest of  International Databases – Carl Asche & Gordon Cummins
   
   
8. Adaptation of foreign data for local analysis  - Nalin Payakachat, Sabyasachi Ghosh, Ljubica Besker &
   Tomas Sechser
1. What to do if you need data and there is none local
2. Pitfalls when using foreign data and ways to cope with these

All country / region sections could follow a given structure:

1. Briefly describe the current status of disease and health management in the country / region; ideally supported by examples
2. Briefly describe the role of local data sources for disease and health management;
   ideally supported by examples
3. Brief listing of available sources, classify key parameters (Public / private; tape of data; …) with predefined criteria and a standardized (simple) rating of reliability and validity (criteria to be developed / taken from other chapters)