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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 2. Intervention Cost–Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
2. 3. Strengthening Health Systems
   1. Assessment of Approaches to Strengthen Health System Capacity
3. 5. Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future
4. 26. Maternal and Perinatal Conditions
5. 27. Newborn Survival
   1. Interventions
6. 31. Mental Disorders
   1. Cost-Effectiveness Methods and Results
   2. Policy and Service Implications
7. 33. Cardiovascular Disease
   1. Epidemiology of CVD
   2. Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
8. 34. Inherited Disorders of Hemoglobin
   1. Control and Treatment
9. 35. Respiratory Diseases of Adults
   1. Acute Diseases: Pneumonia and Influenza
   2. Chronic Respiratory Diseases: Nature, Causes, and Burden
10. 36. Diseases of the Kidney and the Urinary System
    1. Economic Benefits of Intervention
11. 52. Pain Control for People with Cancer and AIDS
    1. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness
12. 54. Information to Improve Decision Making for Health
13. 61. Natural Disaster Mitigation and Relief
    1. Disasters as a Public Health Condition
    2. Interventions: From Response to Prevention
    3. Intervention Cost, Cost-Effectiveness, and Economic Benefits
14. 63. Integrated Management of the Sick Child
    1. Intervention Cost and Cost-Effectiveness
    2. Implementation of Programs: Lessons of Experience
15. 64. General Primary Care
    1. The Scope of General Primary Care Practice
16. 65. The District Hospital
    1. Definitions, Basic Concepts, and Framework
    2. Economics of District Hospitals: A Summary of Reported Experience
    3. Factors Influencing District Hospitals' Performance
    4. Effecting Change with Cross-Cutting Interventions
    5. The Future: Research and Information Needs
17. 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
18. 67. Surgery
    1. Interventions
    2. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
19. 68. Emergency Medical Services
    1. Interventions for Emergency Care: Systems, Structures, and Organization
    2. Burden of Disease
20. 70. Improving the Quality of Care in Developing Countries
    1. Policy Interventions to Improve Quality
21. 71. Health Workers: Building and Motivating the Workforce
22. 73. Strategic Management of Clinical Services
    1. Managing Clinical Services in Different Settings
    2. The Specifics: What Works?

Priorities in Health

1. 6. Providing Interventions
   1. Levels of Care
   2. Cross-Level Services and Inputs
2. 7. Pillars of the Health System

Chapter Presentations

Chapter 65. The District Hospital

1. Cost-effectiveness of a Nongovernmental District Hospital in Rural Bangladesh
2. Effectiveness of a Kenyan District Hospital in Preventing Childhood Deaths
3. Theoretical Long-Term Average Cost Curve