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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 3. Strengthening Health Systems
   1. Health System Constraints on the Delivery of Public and Personal Health Services
   2. Targeting Resources
2. 4. Priorities for Global Research and Development of Interventions
   1. Needs, Context, Opportunities, and Major Challenges
3. 9. Millennium Development Goals for Health: What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress?
   1. What Do Countries Need To Do?
4. 17. Sexually Transmitted Infections
   1. Burden of STIs and Benefits of Control
   2. Effectiveness of the Principal Interventions
5. 18. HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment
   1. Care and Treatment
   2. Prevention in Theory and Practice: Using Epidemic Profiles and Contextual Factors to Inform Prevention Guidelines
6. 21. Conquering Malaria
   1. Economics of Malaria Control Interventions
   2. Interventions and Their Effectiveness
7. 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy
8. 24. Helminth Infections: Soil–Transmitted Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis
   1. Burden of the Disease
   2. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Interventions
   3. Implementation of Control Strategies: Lessons of Experience
   4. Research and Development
9. 31. Mental Disorders
   1. Policy and Service Implications
10. 32. Neurological Disorders
    1. Stroke
11. 37. Skin Diseases
    1. Current Status of Community Control Measures in Dermatology
    2. Patterns of Skin Diseases at the Community Level
    3. Prevalence of Skin Diseases
12. 54. Information to Improve Decision Making for Health
    1. Benefits, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness of Improved Information
    2. Systems and Supply of Health Information
13. 55. Drug Resistance
    1. Implementation of Strategies: Two Lessons from Experience
    2. Risk Factors
14. 56. Community Health and Nutrition Programs
    1. Contextual Factors
    2. Programmatic Factors
    3. Results
15. 58. School–Based Health and Nutrition Programs
    1. Infectious Disease and School-Age Children
16. 59. Adolescent Health Programs
    1. Interventions
17. 63. Integrated Management of the Sick Child
    1. Conclusions: Promises and Pitfalls
    2. Implementation of Programs: Lessons of Experience
    3. Intervention Cost and Cost-Effectiveness
    4. Policy Shift to Integrated Management
18. 64. General Primary Care
19. 65. The District Hospital
    1. Economics of District Hospitals: A Summary of Reported Experience
20. 70. Improving the Quality of Care in Developing Countries
    1. Policy Interventions to Improve Quality
21. 73. Strategic Management of Clinical Services
    1. Managing Clinical Services in Different Settings
    2. The Specifics: What Works?

Priorities in Health

1. 3. Cost–Effectiveness Analysis
   1. How Can Policy Makers Use Cost-Effectiveness Analysis?
2. 4. Cost–Effective Strategies for the Excess Burden of Disease in Developing Countries
   1. Infectious and Communicable Diseases
3. 6. Providing Interventions
   1. Integration of Services Across the Life Cycle
4. 7. Pillars of the Health System
   1. Information, Surveillance, and Research