Respiratory Infections

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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 2. Intervention Cost–Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
   1. Discussion
2. 12. Financing Health Systems in the 21st Century
3. 25. Acute Respiratory Infections in Children
   1. Causes of ARIs and the Burden of Disease
   2. Interventions
   3. Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
   4. Implementation of ARI Control Strategies: Lessons of Experience
   5. Research and Development Agenda
   6. Conclusions: Promises and Pitfalls
4. 35. Respiratory Diseases of Adults
   1. Acute Diseases: Pneumonia and Influenza
   2. Chronic Respiratory Diseases: Nature, Causes, and Burden
   3. Occupational Lung Disease and Other Respiratory Diseases
   4. General Approach to Lowering Risk of Adult Respiratory Disease
   5. Future Research Needs
5. 42. Indoor Air Pollution
   1. Nature, Causes, and Burden of Condition
   2. The Research and Development Agenda
   3. Conclusions
6. 55. Drug Resistance
   1. Interventions
7. 60. Occupational Health
   1. Nature and Causes of Occupational Health Conditions in the Developing World
   2. Global Burden of Disease from Occupational Health Risks
   3. Economic Aspects of Intervention
8. 63. Integrated Management of the Sick Child
   1. Policy Shift to Integrated Management
   2. Implementation of Programs: Lessons of Experience
   3. Conclusions: Promises and Pitfalls

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

1. 3. The Burden of Disease and Mortality by Condition: Data, Methods, and Results for 2001
   1. Global and Regional Mortality in 2001
2. 4. Comparative Quantification of Mortality and Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Risk Factors
   1. Burden of Disease Attributable to Multiple Risk Factors
   2. Discussion
3. 6. Incorporating Deaths Near the Time of Birth into Estimates of the Global Burden of Disease
   1. Stillbirths and Neonatal Mortality in the Context of the Global Burden Of Disease

Priorities in Health

1. 4. Cost–Effective Strategies for the Excess Burden of Disease in Developing Countries
2. 7. Pillars of the Health System
   1. Management of Health Services