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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

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

Priorities in Health

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

Chapter Presentations

Chapter 56. Community Health and Nutrition Programs

1. General Structure of Community-Based Programs