Resources

HeaRT Newsletter

• Third and final HeaRT newsletter

Health Care Quality and Performance

• Reporting on Quality in Healthcare – Sue Lister
• Quality handout - Sue Lister
• Reporting on Quality and Performance in health care - John Lister

Reporting Statistics

• Reporting Statistics for Health Journalists – Dr David Schley (Royal Statistical Society)

The Business and economics of health care

• The Business and economics of health care Presentation.
• Links to further reading Business and Economics of Health care

Reporting on Health Policy

• Presentation: Reporting on Health Policy

Global health and inequalities

• Global health and inequalities presentation and weblinks

Conflicts of Interest

• Evaluating Conflicts of Interest
• Conflict of interest: Richard Horton House of Commons - Minutes of Evidence 2004
• Does it matter who writes medical news stories?
• Financial transparency skin-deep at medical journals - Reuters
• Much of the most accessible literature on conflicts of interest is from the USA

Reporting

• Presentation: Reporting medical research and science
• The trouble with medical news stories

How to ...

• Understanding Hospital and Other Financial Documents
• Data mining with Excel or other analytical software
• How to map health conditions
• How to search for medical information online
• How to report public opinion polls and surveys
• Reading and general advice on how to understand statistics

Further reading

• Further reading and information on Health Policy
• Further Reading and resources on Health Inequalities
• Further reading and sources on Global Health
• Further reading and sources on the workings of publicly funded health care systems
• Further reading on covering Medical Research and science
• Journalists-Resource-syllabus-health-reporting

Shorenstein syllabus

• Shorenstein Center Health Journalism syllabus