Research Catalog

Title

Priorities in health / editors, Dean T. Jamison [and others].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jamison, Dean T.
• Disease Control Priorities Project.

Description

xvii, 217 pages : illustrations, color maps; 24 cm

Summary

"This companion volume to Disease Control Priorities In Developing Countries, 2nd edition (DCP2) facilities access to DCP2, synthesizes many of the book's major themes and findings, and helps readers identify chapters of greatest interest to them. With this guide, policy makers, practitioners, academics, and the members of the interested public will learn about DCP2's main messages, gain an understanding of its principal methods of analysis, appreciate the scope of major diseases, and be alerted to the most cost-effective interventions."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Disease control priorities in developing countries.

Subjects

• Developing Countries
• Health Planning
• Preventive Medicine
• Public Health
• Health planning > Developing countries
• Public health > Developing countries
• Medicine, Preventive > Developing countries

Note

• Col. maps on lining papers.
• "Disease Control Priorities Project"--Cover.
• "Companion volume to Disease control priorities in developing countries, 2nd ed. (DCP2)"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-186) and index.

Contents

1. Accomplishments, challenges, and priorities -- 2. Success in addressing priorities -- 3. Cost-effectiveness analysis -- 4. Cost-effective strategies for the excess burden of disease in developing countries -- 5. Cost-effective strategies for noncommunicable diseases, risk factors, and behaviors -- 6. Providing interventions -- 7. Pillars of the health system -- 8. The way forward : a blueprint for action.

ISBN

0821362607

LCCN

• 2006041753
• 9780821362600

OCLC

• ocm64453513
• SCSB-5243324

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries