Intended as a companion piece to volume 1 in the Methods Series, Communicable Disease Control Planing (CE 024 229), this first of six volumes in the International Health Planning Reference Series is a combined literature review and annotated bibliography dealing with communicable disease control in developing countries. The review identifies literature relevant to program planning and evaluation and distills from it the most workable planning and evaluation methods, the required data and data collection methods, and the pitfalls most likely to be encountered. Specific topics include reasons for planning health programs, planning methods, and evaluation. One section also extracts highlights about many of the diseases discussed in the accompanying manual. The 112 references included in the review are contained in the bibliography. The format for each entry is author, title, source or publisher, date of publication, and annotation. (YLB)