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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 33. Cardiovascular Disease
2. 21. Conquering Malaria
   1. Burden of Disease
   2. Causes, Epidemiology, Manifestations, and Diagnosis
   3. Conclusion
   4. Economics of Malaria Control Interventions
   5. Interventions and Their Effectiveness
   6. Research Priorities
3. 62. Control and Eradication
   1. Conclusions
4. 7. Economic Approaches to Valuing Global Health Research
5. 72. Ensuring Supplies of Appropriate Drugs and Vaccines
   1. The WHO Prequalification Schemes
   2. Vaccine Policies
6. 12. Financing Health Systems in the 21st Century
   1. Health Financing Issues in LICs
7. 11. Fiscal Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
8. 24. Helminth Infections: Soil–Transmitted Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis
   1. Averted, Avertable, and Nonavertable Burden
   2. Burden of the Disease
   3. Causes and Characteristics of Helminth Infections
   4. Conclusions: Promises and Pitfalls
   5. Economic Benefits of Intervention
   6. Epidemiology of STH Infections and Schistosomiasis
   7. Implementation of Control Strategies: Lessons of Experience
   8. Research and Development
9. 8. Improving the Health of Populations: Lessons of Experience
10. 2. Intervention Cost–Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
11. 50. Loss of Vision and Hearing
    1. Nature, Causes, and Epidemiology of Vision Loss
12. 9. Millennium Development Goals for Health: What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress?
    1. Costing and Financing Additional Spending for the MDGs
    2. Scaling Up: Defining Interventions and Removing Constraints
13. 4. Priorities for Global Research and Development of Interventions
    1. Key Recommendations
14. 6. Product Development Priorities
    1. Diagnostics
    2. Financing and Institutional Arrangements for New Product Development
    3. Introduction
    4. Regulatory and Liability Issues
15. 5. Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future
    1. Medicine before the 20th Century
16. 37. Skin Diseases
    1. Economic Assessments and Skin Diseases in Developing Countries
    2. Patterns of Skin Diseases at the Community Level
17. 23. Tropical Diseases Lacking Adequate Control Measures: Dengue, Leishmaniasis, and African Trypanosomiasis
    1. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
    2. Disease Burden
    3. Disease Characteristics and Transmission
    4. Management and Control Strategies
    5. Summary
18. 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy
    1. Conclusion
    2. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
    3. Disease Burden
    4. Disease Characteristics and Transmission
    5. Interventions and Their Effectiveness
    6. Research Needs and Priorities
19. 16. Tuberculosis
    1. Acknowledgments
    2. Alternative and Complementary Approaches to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Active Disease
    3. Conclusions
    4. Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions against Tuberculosis
    5. Cost-Effectiveness of Managing Endemic Tuberculosis
    6. Cost-Effectiveness of Managing Tuberculosis Outbreaks
    7. Epidemiological Burden and Trends
    8. Interventions against Tuberculosis
    9. Research and Development
    10. Summary of Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
    11. Tuberculosis Infection, Disease, and Death
20. 41. Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion

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)