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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 3. Strengthening Health Systems
   1. Acknowledgments
   2. Assessment of Approaches to Strengthen Health System Capacity
   3. Targeting Resources
2. 8. Improving the Health of Populations: Lessons of Experience
   1. Intervention Type, Programmatic Characteristics, and Policies
3. 10. Gender Differentials in Health
   1. Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
4. 11. Fiscal Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
   1. Taxes and Tax Expenditures: Design and Outcomes
5. 16. Tuberculosis
   1. Epidemiological Burden and Trends
6. 17. Sexually Transmitted Infections
   1. Effectiveness of the Principal Interventions
   2. Intervention Costs and Cost-Effectiveness
   3. Introduction
   4. Scaling Up Control Strategies
7. 18. HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment
   1. Action under Uncertainty
   2. Care and Treatment
8. 19. Diarrheal Diseases
   1. Preventive Strategies
9. 25. Acute Respiratory Infections in Children
   1. Causes of ARIs and the Burden of Disease
   2. Interventions
10. 27. Newborn Survival
    1. Implementation
11. 29. Health Service Interventions for Cancer Control in Developing Countries
12. 33. Cardiovascular Disease
    1. Burden of Disease
    2. Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
13. 35. Respiratory Diseases of Adults
    1. General Approach to Lowering Risk of Adult Respiratory Disease
    2. Occupational Lung Disease and Other Respiratory Diseases
14. 36. Diseases of the Kidney and the Urinary System
    1. Research and Development Agenda
15. 38. Oral and Craniofacial Diseases and Disorders
    1. Aspects of Treatment of Cavities and of Caries Disease
16. 39. Unintentional Injuries
    1. Costs, Cost-Effectiveness, and Economic Benefits of Intervention
    2. Interventions
17. 40. Interpersonal Violence
    1. Conclusions: Promises and Pitfalls
    2. Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
    3. Economic Impact of Violence
    4. Implementation of Prevention Strategies
    5. Interventions
    6. The Nature, Burden, and Causes of Interpersonal Violence
18. 42. Indoor Air Pollution
    1. Implementation of Control Strategies: Lessons from Experience
    2. Intervention Costs and Effectiveness
    3. The Research and Development Agenda
19. 44. Prevention of Chronic Disease by Means of Diet and Lifestyle Changes
20. 45. The Growing Burden of Risk from High Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, and Bodyweight
    1. Burden of the Disease, Condition, or Risk Factor
    2. Economic Benefits of Intervention
21. 46. Tobacco Addiction
    1. Constraints to Effective Tobacco-Control Policies
    2. Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Tobacco-Control Interventions
22. 47. Alcohol
    1. Implementation of Control Strategies: Lessons of Experience
23. 48. Illicit Opiate Abuse
24. 49. Learning and Developmental Disabilities
25. 50. Loss of Vision and Hearing
26. 51. Cost–Effectiveness of Interventions for Musculoskeletal Conditions
    1. Burden of Musculoskeletal Disease
27. 54. Information to Improve Decision Making for Health
    1. Benefits, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness of Improved Information
    2. Systems and Supply of Health Information
28. 55. Drug Resistance
    1. Risk Factors
29. 57. Contraception
30. 58. School–Based Health and Nutrition Programs
    1. Economic Benefits of Intervention
31. 59. Adolescent Health Programs
    1. Nature and Causes of the Burden of Disease in Young People
    2. Program Implementation and Lessons of Experience
32. 64. General Primary Care
    1. Acknowledgments
    2. Scaling Up
33. 65. The District Hospital
    1. Economics of District Hospitals: A Summary of Reported Experience
34. 66. Referral Hospitals
    1. Current Balance of Care in Practice
    2. Functions and Benefits
    3. Getting Better Value for Money from the Hospital System
35. 70. Improving the Quality of Care in Developing Countries
36. 71. Health Workers: Building and Motivating the Workforce
    1. Health Care Staff

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

1. 1. Measuring the Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, 1990—2001
2. 3. The Burden of Disease and Mortality by Condition: Data, Methods, and Results for 2001

Priorities in Health

1. 2. Success in Addressing Priorities
2. 4. Cost–Effective Strategies for the Excess Burden of Disease in Developing Countries
   1. Infectious and Communicable Diseases
3. 5. Cost–Effective Strategies for Noncommunicable Diseases, Risk Factors, and Behaviors
   1. Tobacco Use
4. 6. Providing Interventions
   1. Integration of Services Across the Life Cycle
5. 7. Pillars of the Health System
   1. Human Resources
   2. Information, Surveillance, and Research