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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 43. Air and Water Pollution: Burden and Strategies for Control
   1. Interventions
   2. Nature, Causes, and Burden of Air and Water Pollution
2. 56. Community Health and Nutrition Programs
   1. Programmatic Factors
3. 51. Cost–Effectiveness of Interventions for Musculoskeletal Conditions
4. 19. Diarrheal Diseases
5. 7. Economic Approaches to Valuing Global Health Research
6. 72. Ensuring Supplies of Appropriate Drugs and Vaccines
   1. Vaccine Research Priorities
7. 12. Financing Health Systems in the 21st Century
8. 11. Fiscal Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
9. 10. Gender Differentials in Health
10. 29. Health Service Interventions for Cancer Control in Developing Countries
    1. Research Agenda
11. 71. Health Workers: Building and Motivating the Workforce
12. 24. Helminth Infections: Soil–Transmitted Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis
13. 48. Illicit Opiate Abuse
14. 8. Improving the Health of Populations: Lessons of Experience
15. 70. Improving the Quality of Care in Developing Countries
    1. Conclusion
    2. Measuring Quality
    3. Quality Definition and Population Framework
16. 42. Indoor Air Pollution
    1. The Research and Development Agenda
17. 54. Information to Improve Decision Making for Health
    1. Systems and Supply of Health Information
18. 34. Inherited Disorders of Hemoglobin
19. 2. Intervention Cost–Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
    1. Discussion
20. 1. Investing in Health
    1. HIV/AIDS
    2. Why Has Mortality Declined at Such Different Rates in Different Countries?
21. 49. Learning and Developmental Disabilities
22. 50. Loss of Vision and Hearing
23. 61. Natural Disaster Mitigation and Relief
24. 60. Occupational Health
    1. Implementation
    2. Research Agenda
25. 38. Oral and Craniofacial Diseases and Disorders
26. 4. Priorities for Global Research and Development of Interventions
    1. Key Recommendations
    2. Needs, Context, Opportunities, and Major Challenges
27. 6. Product Development Priorities
    1. Diagnostics
    2. Intellectual Property
    3. Pharmaceutical Products
28. 53. Public Health Surveillance: A Tool for Targeting and Monitoring Intervention
    1. Economics of Public Health Surveillance Systems
    2. Future of Surveillance
    3. Selected Surveillance Strategies
29. 13. Recent Trends and Innovations in Development Assistance for Health
    1. Conclusions
    2. Making Development Assistance for Health More Effective: Lessons Learned
    3. Recent Innovations to Improve the Effectiveness of Development Assistance for Health
30. 66. Referral Hospitals
    1. Functions and Benefits
31. 5. Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future
    1. Science, Technology, and Medicine in the 20th Century
    2. Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Future
32. 17. Sexually Transmitted Infections
33. 3. Strengthening Health Systems
34. 67. Surgery
    1. Interventions
35. 65. The District Hospital
    1. Definitions, Basic Concepts, and Framework
    2. Effecting Change with Cross-Cutting Interventions
    3. The Future: Research and Information Needs
36. 45. The Growing Burden of Risk from High Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, and Bodyweight
37. 23. Tropical Diseases Lacking Adequate Control Measures: Dengue, Leishmaniasis, and African Trypanosomiasis
38. 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy
39. 39. Unintentional Injuries
40. 20. Vaccine–Preventable Diseases
41. 41. Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion
    1. Excreta Disposal
    2. Water Supply

Priorities in Health

1. 1. Accomplishments, Challenges, and Priorities
2. 7. Pillars of the Health System
   1. Information, Surveillance, and Research
   2. Management of Health Services
3. 6. Providing Interventions
4. 2. Success in Addressing Priorities