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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 56. Community Health and Nutrition Programs
   1. Community- and Facility-Based Programs
   2. Community-Based Programs—What Are They?
   3. Contextual Factors
   4. Future Applications
   5. Programmatic Factors
   6. Research Needs
   7. Results
   8. Success Factors
   9. What Is Known about Efficacy and Effectiveness
2. 64. General Primary Care
   1. A Research and Development Agenda for General Primary Care
   2. Acknowledgments
   3. Conclusions
   4. Scaling Up
   5. The Cost-Effectiveness of Primary Care Interventions
   6. The Effectiveness of General Primary Care
   7. The Scope of General Primary Care Practice
3. 49. Learning and Developmental Disabilities
   1. Acknowledgments
   2. Impairment, Disability, and Participation
   3. Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
   4. LDD and the Global Burden of Disease
   5. Other Factors Leading to Increases in Measured Prevalence
   6. Research Agenda for Prevention of Disabilities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
   7. Summary
   8. Three Levels of Prevention
   9. Unintended Consequences of Successful or Partially Successful Interventions
4. 27. Newborn Survival
   1. Acknowledgments
   2. Conclusions
   3. Implementation
   4. Interventions
   5. Marginal Impact and Cost of Scaling Up Universal Neonatal Packages
   6. Neonatal Deaths
   7. Research Priorities
5. 38. Oral and Craniofacial Diseases and Disorders
   1. Acknowledgments
   2. Aspects of Treatment of Cavities and of Caries Disease
   3. Common-Risk-Factor Intervention Programs
   4. Conclusions
   5. Cost-Effectiveness of Oral Health Care
   6. Dental Caries
   7. Developmental Disorders
   8. Fluorosis of Teeth
   9. Noma (Cancrum Oris)
   10. Oral Manifestations of HIV/AIDS
   11. Oral Precancer and Cancer
   12. Periodontal Diseases: Chronic Gingivitis and Chronic Periodontitis
   13. Research and Future Actions
6. 66. Referral Hospitals
   1. Acknowledgments
   2. Concluding Comments
   3. Current Balance of Care in Practice
   4. Definition and Characteristics
   5. Determinants of an Appropriate Balance of Referral-Level Care
   6. Functions and Benefits
   7. Getting Better Value for Money from the Hospital System
7. 5. Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future
   1. Medicine before the 20th Century
   2. Science, Technology, and Medicine in the 20th Century
   3. Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Future
   4. Summary
8. 37. Skin Diseases
   1. Current Status of Community Control Measures in Dermatology
   2. Economic Assessments and Skin Diseases in Developing Countries
   3. Effective Therapies
   4. Patterns of Skin Diseases at the Community Level
   5. Prevalence of Skin Diseases
   6. Skin Diseases
9. 73. Strategic Management of Clinical Services
   1. Managing Clinical Services in Different Settings
   2. Summary
   3. The Specifics: What Works?
   4. What Is Management?
10. 28. Stunting, Wasting, and Micronutrient Deficiency Disorders
    1. Conclusions
    2. Economic Benefits of Intervention
    3. Intervention Costs and Cost-Effectiveness
    4. Interventions
    5. Nature, Causes, and Burden of Undernutrition
    6. Program Implementation: Lessons of Experience
    7. Research and Development Agenda
11. 67. Surgery
    1. Conclusions
    2. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
    3. Interventions
    4. Nature, Causes, and Burden of Surgical Conditions
    5. Research and Development Agenda

Priorities in Health

1. 7. Pillars of the Health System
   1. Financing
   2. Human Resources
   3. Information, Surveillance, and Research
   4. Management of Health Services
2. 6. Providing Interventions
   1. Cross-Level Services and Inputs
   2. Integration of Services Across the Life Cycle
   3. Levels of Care

Chapter Presentations

Chapter 56. Community Health and Nutrition Programs

1. General Structure of Community-Based Programs