Acknowledgements
Sonbol Shahid-Salles provided invaluable research support and critical advice during preparation of this chapter. Mantra Singh expertly provided word-processing support. Candice Byrne provided valuable comments. The other editors of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition, provided extensive critical reactions to the messages and text, and the chapter is consequently very different than it would have been. The Advisory Committee to the editors of this volume, chaired by Jaime Sepulveda, provided invaluable comments and reaction during a meeting at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, in December 2004.
In the early 1990s, the World Bank initiated efforts to understand and disseminate policies to address the remaining large burden of disease affecting the world's poor. The World Bank's (1993) World Development Report: Investing in Health reported the results of that assessment, which drew on a second publication, Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 1st edition (DCP1) (Jamison and others 1993). Enormous changes both in the world and in our knowledge base occurred during the subsequent decade, leading to the conclusion that a major revision, update, and expansion of DCP1 would be of value. In a collaborative undertaking, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health sponsored this new effort (DCP2) with substantial financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This book results from that collaboration.
