Disease control priorities in developing countries (Disease Control Priorities Project) - Hardcover

World Bank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821361791 ISBN 13: 9780821361795

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2006

Synopsis

Based on careful analysis of the burden of disease and the costs of interventions, this second edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries highlights achievable priorities; measures progress toward providing efficient, equitable care; promotes cost-effective interventions to targeted populations; and encourages integrated efforts to optimize health. Nearly 500 experts - scientists, epidemiologists, health economists, academicians, and public health practitioners - from around the world contributed to the data sources and methodologies, and identified challenges and priorities, resulting in this integrated, comprehensive reference volume on the state of health in developing countries.

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"This second edition of Disease Control Priorities in poor Developing Countries, published in conjuction with al companion book, by Alan Lopez and others, Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, serves as a roadmap for thishis challenge. It is a landmark reference for physicians, loping
researchers, policymakers, and politicians who makeion book, decisions about improving the health of people in thend Risk developing world...The second edition of Disease Controla Priorities in Developing Countries will provide a new menu of activities from which its readers can choose to continue
the most sensible path toward investing in health, removing inequities in health care, and promoting economic development and peace."--New England Journal of Medicine
"This second edition of Disease Control Priorities in poor Developing Countries, published in conjuction with al companion book, by Alan Lopez and others, Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, serves as a roadmap for thishis challenge. It is a landmark reference for physicians, loping
researchers, policymakers, and politicians who makeion book, decisions about improving the health of people in thend Risk developing world...The second edition of Disease Controla Priorities in Developing Countries will provide a new menu of activities from which its readers can choose to continue
the most sensible path toward investing in health, removing inequities in health care, and promoting economic development and peace."--New England Journal of Medicine
"This second edition of Disease Control Priorities in poor Developing Countries, published in conjuction with al companion book, by Alan Lopez and others, Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, serves as a roadmap for thishis challenge. It is a landmark reference for physicians, loping researchers, policymakers, and politicians who makeion book, decisions about improving the health of people in thend Risk developing world...The second edition of Disease Controla Priorities in Developing Countries will provide a new menu of activities from which its readers can choose to continue the most sensible path toward investing in health, removing inequities in health care, and promoting economic development and peace."--New England Journal of Medicine
"This second edition of Disease Control Priorities in poor Developing Countries, published in conjuction with al companion book, by Alan Lopez and others, Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, serves as a roadmap for thishis challenge. It is a landmark reference for physicians, loping researchers, policymakers, and politicians who makeion book, decisions about improving the health of people in thend Risk developing world...The second edition of Disease Controla Priorities in Developing Countries will provide a new menu of activities from which its readers can choose to continue the most sensible path toward investing in health, removing inequities in health care, and promoting economic development and peace."--New England Journal of Medicine

Synopsis

This second edition of the 1993 bestseller that established the concepts of disease burden and cost-effectiveness as important inputs to health policy in developing countries continues the effort to support evidence-based decision making in public health. It presents updated and improved information on disease burden and cost-effectiveness by disease or risk category. It also addresses health system institutions, policy instruments, and cross-cutting themes such as women's health, population aging, and health care finances.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821361791
• ISBN 13: 9780821361795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1443
• Editor: Jamison Dean T.