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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 59. Adolescent Health Programs
2. 43. Air and Water Pollution: Burden and Strategies for Control
3. 47. Alcohol
4. 56. Community Health and Nutrition Programs
   1. Programmatic Factors
5. 57. Contraception
6. 15. Cost–Effectiveness Analysis for Priority Setting
   1. Cost-Effectiveness and Priority Setting
   2. Estimating Effectiveness in Health
7. 19. Diarrheal Diseases
8. 36. Diseases of the Kidney and the Urinary System
9. 55. Drug Resistance
10. 7. Economic Approaches to Valuing Global Health Research
    1. Methods of Assessing the Value of Health Research Projects
11. 68. Emergency Medical Services
    1. Interventions for Emergency Care: Systems, Structures, and Organization
12. 14. Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation, Research, and New Product Development
    1. Ethics in Research and New Product Development
    2. Health Resource Allocation
13. 12. Financing Health Systems in the 21st Century
    1. Absorption, Effectiveness, and Sustainability of Donor Funds
    2. Conclusions
    3. Disclaimer
    4. Health Financing Issues in LICs
    5. Health Financing Issues in MICs
    6. Health Financing Systems
14. 11. Fiscal Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
    1. Conclusions
    2. Fiscal Policy to Promote Health
    3. Subsidies for Health and Health-Related Products
    4. Taxes and Tax Expenditures: Design and Outcomes
    5. Use of Fiscal Policy for Health in Developing Countries
15. 64. General Primary Care
    1. Scaling Up
16. 71. Health Workers: Building and Motivating the Workforce
    1. Health Care Provision and Associated Human Resource Needs
    2. Health Worker Incentives
17. 18. HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment
18. 8. Improving the Health of Populations: Lessons of Experience
    1. General Findings
    2. Intervention Type, Programmatic Characteristics, and Policies
19. 70. Improving the Quality of Care in Developing Countries
20. 42. Indoor Air Pollution
    1. Implementation of Control Strategies: Lessons from Experience
    2. Intervention Costs and Effectiveness
21. 54. Information to Improve Decision Making for Health
    1. Financing of Improved Health Information
    2. Introduction
    3. Systems and Supply of Health Information
22. 63. Integrated Management of the Sick Child
23. 40. Interpersonal Violence
24. 2. Intervention Cost–Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
25. 1. Investing in Health
    1. Child Health
    2. Conclusions
    3. Development Assistance for Health
    4. Health System Development and Finance
    5. Research and Development
    6. The Economic Benefits of Better Health
26. 49. Learning and Developmental Disabilities
27. 31. Mental Disorders
28. 9. Millennium Development Goals for Health: What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress?
    1. Costing and Financing Additional Spending for the MDGs
    2. What Do Countries Need To Do?
29. 61. Natural Disaster Mitigation and Relief
    1. Intervention Cost, Cost-Effectiveness, and Economic Benefits
30. 27. Newborn Survival
    1. Implementation
31. 60. Occupational Health
    1. Implementation
32. 4. Priorities for Global Research and Development of Interventions
    1. Needs, Context, Opportunities, and Major Challenges
    2. Priority Setting
33. 6. Product Development Priorities
    1. Financing and Institutional Arrangements for New Product Development
    2. Pharmaceutical Products
34. 53. Public Health Surveillance: A Tool for Targeting and Monitoring Intervention
    1. Economics of Public Health Surveillance Systems
35. 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
    4. Trends and Gaps in Development Assistance for Health
36. 66. Referral Hospitals
    1. Functions and Benefits
    2. Getting Better Value for Money from the Hospital System
37. 58. School–Based Health and Nutrition Programs
38. 5. Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future
    1. Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Future
39. 37. Skin Diseases
40. 3. Strengthening Health Systems
    1. Assessment of Approaches to Strengthen Health System Capacity
    2. Health System Constraints on the Delivery of Public and Personal Health Services
    3. Solutions in Low-Capacity Environments
41. 67. Surgery
42. 65. The District Hospital
    1. Factors Influencing District Hospitals' Performance
43. 46. Tobacco Addiction
    1. Constraints to Effective Tobacco-Control Policies
44. 23. Tropical Diseases Lacking Adequate Control Measures: Dengue, Leishmaniasis, and African Trypanosomiasis
45. 39. Unintentional Injuries
46. 20. Vaccine–Preventable Diseases
    1. Conclusions
    2. Financial Sustainability of Immunization Programs
47. 41. Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion
    1. Water Supply

Priorities in Health

1. 1. Accomplishments, Challenges, and Priorities
   1. An Agenda for Action
2. 4. Cost–Effective Strategies for the Excess Burden of Disease in Developing Countries
   1. Infectious and Communicable Diseases
3. 3. Cost–Effectiveness Analysis
4. 7. Pillars of the Health System
   1. Financing
   2. Human Resources
   3. Information, Surveillance, and Research
5. 6. Providing Interventions
   1. Cross-Level Services and Inputs
   2. Levels of Care
6. 2. Success in Addressing Priorities
7. 8. The Way Forward: A Blueprint for Action

Chapter Presentations

Chapter 01. Investing in Health

1. Health Expenditures, 2001, By Country Income Level

Chapter 12. Financing Health Systems in the 21st Century

1. Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Middle-Income Countries
2. Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Middle-Income Countries
3. Average Central Government Revenues, Early 2000s
4. Health Care Financing System Trends, by Country Income Level
5. Composition of Health Financing, by Country Income Level, 2001

Chapter 20. Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

1. Annual Cost per Fully Immunized Child for the Traditional Childhood Vaccines, By Region, 2001
2. Annual Cost per Fully Immunized Child for the Traditional Childhood Vaccines, By Immunization Strategy, 2001

Chapter 27. Newborn Survival

1. Cost of Adding Newborn Care Packages to Maternal and Child Health Services

Chapter 31. Mental Disorders

1. Costs of a Mental Health Care Package, By Region

Chapter 30. Diabetes: The Pandemic and Potential Solutions

1. Estimated Direct Medical Costs of Diabetes, By Region, 2003

Chapter 41. Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion

1. Median Construction Cost of Water Supply Facilities for Select Regions
2. Median Construction Cost of Sanitation Technologies in Select Regions