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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
3. 5. Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future
   1. Medicine before the 20th Century
4. 6. Product Development Priorities
   1. Introduction
   2. Diagnostics
   3. Financing and Institutional Arrangements for New Product Development
   4. Regulatory and Liability Issues
5. 7. Economic Approaches to Valuing Global Health Research
6. 8. Improving the Health of Populations: Lessons of Experience
7. 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
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. 16. Tuberculosis
    1. Tuberculosis Infection, Disease, and Death
    2. Epidemiological Burden and Trends
    3. Interventions against Tuberculosis
    4. Alternative and Complementary Approaches to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Active Disease
    5. Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions against Tuberculosis
    6. Cost-Effectiveness of Managing Endemic Tuberculosis
    7. Cost-Effectiveness of Managing Tuberculosis Outbreaks
    8. Summary of Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
    9. Research and Development
    10. Conclusions
    11. Acknowledgments
11. 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
12. 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy
    1. Disease Characteristics and Transmission
    2. Disease Burden
    3. Interventions and Their Effectiveness
    4. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
    5. Research Needs and Priorities
    6. Conclusion
13. 23. Tropical Diseases Lacking Adequate Control Measures: Dengue, Leishmaniasis, and African Trypanosomiasis
    1. Disease Characteristics and Transmission
    2. Disease Burden
    3. Management and Control Strategies
    4. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
    5. Summary
14. 24. Helminth Infections: Soil–Transmitted Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis
    1. Causes and Characteristics of Helminth Infections
    2. Epidemiology of STH Infections and Schistosomiasis
    3. Burden of the Disease
    4. Averted, Avertable, and Nonavertable Burden
    5. Economic Benefits of Intervention
    6. Implementation of Control Strategies: Lessons of Experience
    7. Research and Development
    8. Conclusions: Promises and Pitfalls
15. 33. Cardiovascular Disease
16. 37. Skin Diseases
    1. Patterns of Skin Diseases at the Community Level
    2. Economic Assessments and Skin Diseases in Developing Countries
17. 41. Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion
18. 50. Loss of Vision and Hearing
    1. Nature, Causes, and Epidemiology of Vision Loss
19. 62. Control and Eradication
    1. Conclusions
20. 72. Ensuring Supplies of Appropriate Drugs and Vaccines
    1. Vaccine Policies
    2. The WHO Prequalification Schemes

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. 2. Success in Addressing Priorities

Chapter Presentations

Chapter 06. Product Development Priorities

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

Chapter 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy

1. Control Strategies, Major Challenges, and Research Needs for Onchocerciasis
2. Control Strategies, Major Challenges, and Research Needs for Leprosy
3. Control Strategies, Major Challenges, and Research Needs for Lymphatic Filariasis
4. Cost per DALY Averted for Main Interventions for Select Targeted Tropical Diseases (US$)
5. Control Strategies, Major Challenges, and Research Needs for Chagas Disease
6. DALYs Lost, by Disease and Select World Bank Region (thousands)