Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821361791 ISBN 13: 9780821361795

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In the late 1980s the World Bank initiated a process designed both to generate analytic background on priorities for control of specific diseases and to use this information as input for comparative cost-effectiveness estimates for interventions addressing the full range of conditions important in developing countries. The purpose of the comparative cost-effectiveness work was to provide one input into decision-making within the health sectors of highly resource-constrained low- and middle-income countries. This process resulted in the 1993 publication of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. A decade after publication of the first edition, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health have initiated a Disease Control Priorities Project that will, among other outcomes, result in a second edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP2).

DCP2 will provide integrative chapters-e.g. school health systems or surgery or Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)- that draw together the implementation-related responses to a number of conditions. Case studies and lessons from implementation success will be highlighted.

About this title

About the Author

Dean T. Jamison, Professor of Public Health and of Education, University of California at Los Angeles. W. Henry Mosley, Professor, Department of Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Anthony R. Measham, Advisor, New Delhi resident mission, World Bank.

Review

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821361791
• ISBN 13: 9780821361795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1401
• Editor: Jamison Dean T., Breman Joel G., Measham Anthony R., Alleyne George, Claeson Mariam, Evans David B., Jha Prabhat, Mills Anne, Musgrove Philip