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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 1. Investing in Health
   1. The 20th Century Takeoff in Human Health
   2. Child Health
   3. Research and Development
2. 2. Intervention Cost–Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
   1. Discussion
3. 3. Strengthening Health Systems
   1. History and Current Themes
   2. Health System Constraints on the Delivery of Public and Personal Health Services
4. 4. Priorities for Global Research and Development of Interventions
   1. Key Recommendations
5. 5. Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future
   1. Medicine before the 20th Century
6. 6. Product Development Priorities
   1. Introduction
   2. Pharmaceutical Products
   3. Diagnostics
   4. Intellectual Property
   5. Regulatory and Liability Issues
7. 7. Economic Approaches to Valuing Global Health Research
   1. The Value of Health Research
8. 9. Millennium Development Goals for Health: What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress?
   1. Scaling Up: Defining Interventions and Removing Constraints
   2. Costing and Financing Additional Spending for the MDGs
9. 11. Fiscal Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
10. 12. Financing Health Systems in the 21st Century
    1. Health Financing Issues in LICs
11. 13. Recent Trends and Innovations in Development Assistance for Health
    1. Trends and Gaps in Development Assistance for Health
    2. Conclusions
12. 15. Cost–Effectiveness Analysis for Priority Setting
    1. Cost-Effectiveness and Priority Setting
    2. Estimating Effectiveness in Health
    3. More and Less Comprehensive Data and Analysis
13. 21. Conquering Malaria
    1. Causes, Epidemiology, Manifestations, and Diagnosis
    2. Burden of Disease
    3. Interventions and Their Effectiveness
    4. Economics of Malaria Control Interventions
    5. Research Priorities
    6. Conclusion
14. 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy
    1. Disease Characteristics and Transmission
    2. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
15. 23. Tropical Diseases Lacking Adequate Control Measures: Dengue, Leishmaniasis, and African Trypanosomiasis
    1. Disease Burden
    2. Management and Control Strategies
    3. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
16. 27. Newborn Survival
    1. Research Priorities
17. 28. Stunting, Wasting, and Micronutrient Deficiency Disorders
    1. Nature, Causes, and Burden of Undernutrition
    2. Interventions
18. 34. Inherited Disorders of Hemoglobin
    1. Introduction
    2. Control and Treatment
19. 55. Drug Resistance
    1. Risk Factors
    2. Economic Burden
    3. Implementation of Strategies: Two Lessons from Experience
    4. Agenda for Action
    5. Conclusion
20. 58. School–Based Health and Nutrition Programs
    1. Infectious Disease and School-Age Children
    2. Malnutrition, Noninfectious Disease, and Health and Education
    3. Estimating the Burden of Disease
    4. Economic Benefits of Intervention
    5. Research and Development Agenda
21. 63. Integrated Management of the Sick Child
    1. Nature, Causes, and Burden of Child Mortality
    2. Policy Shift to Integrated Management
    3. Interventions
    4. Conclusions: Promises and Pitfalls
22. 69. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
    1. Economics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Traditional Medicine
    2. Expanding the Beneficial Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Traditional Medicine
    3. Lessons Learned and Implementation
23. 72. Ensuring Supplies of Appropriate Drugs and Vaccines
    1. Selection of Drugs
    2. Quality Assurance for Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines
    3. The WHO Prequalification Schemes

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

1. 1. Measuring the Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, 1990—2001
2. 2. Demographic and Epidemiological Characteristics of Major Regions, 1990—2001
3. 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

Priorities in Health

1. 4. Cost–Effective Strategies for the Excess Burden of Disease in Developing Countries
2. 6. Providing Interventions

Chapter Presentations

Chapter 01. Investing in Health

1. Under-Five Deaths from AIDS, Malaria, and Other Causes, Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 02. Intervention Cost-Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages

1. Cost-effectiveness of Interventions for Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa
2. Neglected Low-Cost Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Childhood Immunization, Malaria, and Childhood Illnesses

Chapter 09. Millennium Development Goals for Health: What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress?

1. Effective Interventions to Achieve the Malaria MDG

Chapter 21. Conquering Malaria

1. Estimated Deaths Due to Malaria, By Region, 2000
2. Disability Adjusted Life Years Lost Due to Malaria, By Region, 2000
3. Population at Risk for Malaria and Number of Malaria Cases, By Region, 2002
4. Estimated Deaths from Malaria in Children Under Age Five in Africa, 2000
5. Cost-effectiveness of Selected Malaria Interventions
6. Determinants of the Malaria Burden: Intrinsic and External Factors