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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 2. Intervention Cost–Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
2. 4. Priorities for Global Research and Development of Interventions
   1. Key Recommendations
   2. Priority Setting
3. 5. Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future
   1. Medicine before the 20th Century
4. 6. Product Development Priorities
   1. Diagnostics
   2. Financing and Institutional Arrangements for New Product Development
   3. Intellectual Property
   4. Introduction
   5. Pharmaceutical Products
   6. Regulatory and Liability Issues
5. 7. Economic Approaches to Valuing Global Health Research
6. 8. Improving the Health of Populations: Lessons of Experience
   1. Intervention Type, Programmatic Characteristics, and Policies
7. 9. Millennium Development Goals for Health: What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress?
   1. Costing and Financing Additional Spending for the MDGs
8. 11. Fiscal Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
9. 12. Financing Health Systems in the 21st Century
   1. Health Financing Issues in LICs
10. 13. Recent Trends and Innovations in Development Assistance for Health
    1. Conclusions
    2. Trends and Gaps in Development Assistance for Health
11. 21. Conquering Malaria
    1. Burden of Disease
    2. Causes, Epidemiology, Manifestations, and Diagnosis
    3. Conclusion
    4. Economics of Malaria Control Interventions
    5. Interventions and Their Effectiveness
    6. Research Priorities
12. 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy
    1. Conclusion
    2. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
    3. Disease Burden
    4. Disease Characteristics and Transmission
    5. Interventions and Their Effectiveness
    6. Research Needs and Priorities
13. 23. Tropical Diseases Lacking Adequate Control Measures: Dengue, Leishmaniasis, and African Trypanosomiasis
    1. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
    2. Disease Burden
    3. Disease Characteristics and Transmission
    4. Management and Control Strategies
    5. Problems and Challenges for Disease Control
    6. Summary
14. 24. Helminth Infections: Soil–Transmitted Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis
    1. Averted, Avertable, and Nonavertable Burden
    2. Burden of the Disease
    3. Causes and Characteristics of Helminth Infections
    4. Conclusions: Promises and Pitfalls
    5. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Interventions
    6. Economic Benefits of Intervention
    7. Epidemiology of STH Infections and Schistosomiasis
    8. Implementation of Control Strategies: Lessons of Experience
    9. Research and Development
15. 33. Cardiovascular Disease
16. 37. Skin Diseases
    1. Economic Assessments and Skin Diseases in Developing Countries
    2. Patterns of Skin Diseases at the Community Level
17. 41. Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion
18. 62. Control and Eradication
    1. Conclusions
19. 72. Ensuring Supplies of Appropriate Drugs and Vaccines
    1. Selection of Drugs
    2. The WHO Prequalification Schemes
    3. Vaccine Policies

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

1. 3. The Burden of Disease and Mortality by Condition: Data, Methods, and Results for 2001

Priorities in Health

1. 1. Accomplishments, Challenges, and Priorities
   1. An Agenda for Action
2. 2. Success in Addressing Priorities

Chapter Presentations

Chapter 06. Product Development Priorities

1. Product Development for Tropical Diseases, Public-Private Partnerships, 2004