Research Catalog

Title

Disease control priorities in developing countries / editors, Dean T. Jamison [and others].

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press ; Washington, DC : World Bank, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xlii, 1401 pages : illustrations, color maps; 29 cm

Subjects

• Health planning > Developing countries
• Developing Countries
• Medicine, Preventive > Developing countries
• Health Planning
• Public Health > economics
• Communicable Disease Control > economics
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Health Policy
• Public health > Developing countries

Note

• Col. maps on lining papers.
• "Disease Control Priorities Project"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Investing in health / Dean T. Jamison -- Ch. 2. Intervention cost-effectiveness : overview of main messages / Ramanan Laxminarayan, Jeffrey Chow and Sonbol A. Shahid-Salles -- Ch. 3. Strengthening health systems / Anne Mills, Fawzia Rasheed and Stephen Tollman -- Ch. 4. Priorities for global research and development of interventions / Barry R. Bloom, Catherine M. Michaud, John R. La Montagne and Lone Simonsen -- Ch. 5. Science and technology for disease control : past, present, and future / David Weatherall, Brian Greenwood, Heng Leng Chee and Prawase Wasi -- Ch. 6. Product development priorities / Adel Mahmoud, Patricia M. Danzon, John H. Barton and Roy D. Mugerwa -- Ch. 7. Economic approaches to valuing global health research / David Meltzer -- Ch. 8. Improving the health of populations : lessons of experience / Carol Ann Medlin, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Dean T. Jamison and Anthony R. Measham -- Ch. 9. Millennium development goals for health : what will it take to accelerate progress? / Adam Wagstaff, Mariam Claeson, Robert M. Hecht, Pablo Gottret and Qiu Fang -- Ch. 10. Gender differentials in health / Mayra Buvinic, Andre Medici, Elisa Fernandez and Ana Cristina Torres -- Ch. 11. Fiscal policies for health promotion and disease prevention / Rachel Nugent and Felicia Knaul -- Ch. 12. Financing health systems in the 21st century / George Schieber, Cristian Baeza, Daniel Kress and Margaret Maier -- Ch. 13. Recent trends and innovations in development assistance for health / Robert M. Hecht and Raj Shah -- Ch. 14. Ethical issues in resource allocation, research, and new product development / Dan W. Brock and Daniel Wikler -- Ch. 15. Cost-effectiveness analysis for priority setting / Philip Musgrove and Julia Fox-Rushby -- Ch. 16. Tuberculosis / Christopher Dye and Katherine Floyd -- Ch. 17. Sexually transmitted infections / Sevgi O. Aral, Mead Over, Lisa Manhart and King K. Holmes -- Ch. 18. HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment / Stefano Bertozzi, Nancy S. Padian, Jeny Wegbreit, Lisa M. DeMaria, Becca Feldman, Helene Gayle, Julian Gold, Robert Grant and Michael T. Isbell -- Ch. 19. Diarrheal diseases / Gerald T. Keusch, Olivier Fontaine, Alok Bhargava, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Juan A. Rivera, Jeffrey Chow, Sonbol A. Shahid-Salles and Ramanan Laxminarayan -- Ch. 20. Vaccine-preventable diseases / Logan Brenzel, Lara J. Wolfson, Julia Fox-Rushby, Mark Miller and Neal A. Halsey -- Ch. 21. Conquering malaria / Joel G. Breman, Anne Mills, Robert W. Snow, Jo-Ann Mulligan, Christian Lengeler, Kamini Mendis, Brian Sharp, Chantal Morel, Paola Marchesini, Nicholas J. White, Richard W. Steketee and Ogobara K. Doumbo -- Ch. 22. Tropical diseases targeted for elimination : Chagas disease, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and leprosy / Jan H. F. Remme, Piet Feenstra, P. R. Lever, Andre Medici, Carlos Morel, Mounkaila Noma, K. D. Ramaiah, Frank Richards, A. Seketeli, Gabriel Schmunis, W. H. van Brakel and Anna Vassall -- Ch. 23. Tropical diseases lacking adequate control measures : dengue, leishmaniasis, and African trypanosomiasis / Pierre Cattand, Phillippe Desjeux, M. G. Guzman, Jean Jannin, A. Kroeger, Andre Medici, Philip Musgrove, Mike B. Nathan, Alexandra Shaw and C. J. Schofield -- Ch. 24. Helminth infections : soil-transmitted helminth infections and schistosomiasis / Peter J. Hotez, Donald A. P. Bundy, Kathleen Beegle, Simon Brooker, Lesley Drake, Nilanthi de Silva, Antonio Montresor, Dirk Engels, Matthew Jukes, Laster Chitsulo, Jeffrey Chow, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Catherine M. Michaud, Jeff Bethony, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira, Xiao Shu-Hua, Alan Fenwick and Lorenzo Savioli -- Ch. 25. Acute respiratory infections in children / Eric A. F. Simoes, Thomas Cherian, Jeffrey Chow, Sonbol A. Shahid-Salles, Ramanan Laxminarayan and T. Jacob John -- Ch. 26. Maternal and perinatal conditions / Wendy J. Graham, John Cairns, Sohinee Bhattacharya, Colin H. W. Bullough, Zahidul Quayyum and Khama Rogo -- Ch. 27. Newborn survival / Joy E. Lawn, Jelka Zupan, Genevieve Begkoyian and Rudolf Knippenberg -- Ch. 28. Stunting, wasting, and micronutrient deficiency disorders / Laura E. Caulfield, Stephanie A. Richard, Juan A. Rivera, Philip Musgrove and Robert E. Black -- Ch. 29. Health service interventions for cancer control in developing countries / Martin L. Brown, Sue J. Goldie, Gerrit Draisma, Joe Harford and Joseph Lipscomb -- Ch. 30. Diabetes : the pandemic and potential solutions / K. M. Venkat Narayan, Ping Zhang, Alka M. Kenaya, Desmond E. Williams, Michael M. Engelgau, Giuseppina Imperatore and Ambady Ramachandran -- Ch. 31. Mental disorders / Steven Hyman, Dan Chisholm, Ronald Kessler, Vikram Patel and Harvey Whiteford -- Ch. 32. Neurological disorders / Vijay Chandra, Rajesh Pandav, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Caroline Tanner, Bala Manyam, Sadanand Rajkumar, Donald Silberberg, Carol Brayne, Jeffrey Chow, Susan Herman, Fleur Hourihan, Scott Kasner, Luis Morillo, Adesola Ogunniyi, William Theodore and Zhen-Xin Zhang -- Ch. 33. Cardiovascular disease / Thomas A. Gaziano, K. Srinath Reddy, Fred Paccaud, Susan Horton and Vivek Chaturvedi -- Ch. 34. Inherited disorders of hemoglobin / David Weatherall, Olu Akinyanju, Suthat Fucharoen, Nancy Olivieri and Philip Musgrove -- Ch. 35. Respiratory diseases of adults / Frank E. Speizer, Susan Horton, Jane Batt and Arthur S. Slutsky -- Ch. 36. Diseases of the kidney and the urinary system / John Dirks, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Susan Horton, Arrigo Schieppati and S. Adibal Hasan Rizvi -- Ch. 37. Skin diseases / Roderick Hay, Sandra E. Bendeck, Suephy Chen, Roberto Estrada, Anne Haddix, Tonya McLeod and Antoine Mahe -- Ch. 38. Oral and craniofacial diseases and disorders / Douglas Bratthall, Poul Erik Petersen, Jayanthi Ramanathan Stjernsward and L. Jackson Brown -- Ch. 39. Unintentional injuries / Robyn Norton, Adnan A. Hyder, David Bishai and Margie Peden -- Ch. 40. Interpersonal violence / Mark L. Rosenberg, Alexander Butchart, James Mercy, Vasant Narasimhan, Hugh Waters and Maureen S. Marshall -- Ch. 41. Water supply, sanitation, and hygiene promotion / Sandy Cairncross and Vivian Valdmanis -- Ch. 42. Indoor air pollution / Nigel Bruce, Eva Rehfuess, Sumi Mehta, Guy Hutton and Kirk Smith -- Ch. 43. Air and water pollution : burden and strategies for control / Tord Kjellstrom, Madhumita Lodh, Tony McMichael, Geetha Ranmuthugala, Rupendra Shrestha and Sally Kingsland -- Ch. 44. Prevention of chronic disease by means of diet and lifestyle changes / Walter C. Willett, Jeffrey P. Koplan, Rachel Nugent, Courtenay Dusenbury, Pekka Puska and Thomas A. Gaziano -- Ch. 45. The growing burden of risk from high blood pressure, cholesterol, and bodyweight / Anthony Rodgers, Carlene M. M. Lawes, Thomas A. Gaziano and Theo Vos -- Ch. 46. Tobacco addiction / Prabhat Jha, Frank J. Chaloupka, James Moore, Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Prakash C. Gupta, Richard Peck, Samira Asma and Witold Zatonski -- Ch. 47. Alcohol / Jurgen Rehm, Dan Chisholm, Robin Room and Alan D. Lopez -- Ch. 48. Illicit opiate abuse / Wayne Hall, Chris Doran, Louisa Degenhardt and Donald Shepard -- Ch. 49. Learning and developmental disabilities / Maureen S. Durkin, Helen Schneider, Vikram S. Pathania, Karin B. Nelson, Geoffrey C. Solarsh, Nicole Bellows, Richard M. Schaffler and Karen J. Hofman -- Ch. 50. Loss of vision and hearing / Joseph Cook, Kevin D. Frick, Rob Baltussen, Serge Resnikoff, Andrew Smith, Jeffrey Mecaskey and Peter Kilima -- Ch. 51. Cost-effectiveness of interventions for musculoskeletal conditions / Luke B. Connelly, Anthony Woolf and Peter Brooks -- Ch. 52. Pain control for people with cancer and AIDS / Kathleen M. Foley, Judith L. Wagner, David E. Joranson and Hellen Gelband --
• Ch. 53. Public health surveillance : a tool for targeting and monitoring interventions / Peter Nsubuga, Mark E. White, Stephen B. Thacker, Mark A. Anderson, Stephen B. Blount, Claire V. Broome, Tom M. Chiller, Victoria Espitia, Rubina Imtiaz, Dan Sosin, Donna F. Stroup, Robert V. Tauxe, Maya Vijayaraghavan and Murray Trostle -- Ch. 54. Information to improve decision making for health / Sally K. Stansfield, Julia Walsh, Ndola Prata and Timothy Evans -- Ch. 55. Drug resistance / Ramanan Laxminarayan, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Adriano Duse, Philip Jenkins, Thomas O'Brien, Iruka N. Okeke, Ariel Pablo-Mendez and Keith P. Klugman -- Ch. 56. Community health and nutrition programs / John B. Mason, David Sanders, Philip Musgrove, Soekirman and Rae Galloway -- Ch. 57. Contraception / Ruth Levine, Ana Langer, Nancy Birdsall, Gaverick Matheny, Merrick Wright and Angela Bayer -- Ch. 58. School-based health and nutrition programs / Donald A. P. Bundy, Sheldon Shaeffer, Matthew Jukes, Kathleen Beegle, Amaya Gillespie, Lesley Drake, Seung-hee Frances Lee, Anna-Maria Hoffman, Jack Jones, Arlene Mitchell, Delia Barcelona, Balla Camara, Chuck Golmar, Lorenzo Savioli, Malick Sembene, Tsutomu Takeuchi and Cream Wright -- Ch. 59. Adolescent health programs / Elizabeth Lule, James E. Rosen, Susheela Singh, James C. Knowles and Jere R. Behrman -- Ch. 60. Occupational health / Linda Rosenstock, Mark Cullen and Marilyn Fingerhut -- Ch. 61. Natural disaster mitigation and relief / Claude de Ville de Goyet, Ricardo Zapata Marti and Claudio Osorio -- Ch. 62. Control and eradication / Mark Miller, Scott Barrett and D. A. Henderson -- Ch. 63. Integrated management of the sick child / Cesar G. Victora, Taghreed Adam, Jennifer Bryce and David B. Evans -- Ch. 64. General primary care / Stephen Tollman, Jane Doherty and Jo-Ann Mulligan -- Ch. 65. The district hospital / Mike English, Claudio F. Lanata, Isaac Ngugi and Peter C. Smith -- Ch. 66. Referral hospitals / Martin Hensher, Max Price and Sarah Adomakoh -- Ch. 67. Surgery / Haile T. Debas, Richard Gosselin, Colin McCord and Amardeep Thind -- Ch. 68. Emergency medical services / Olive C. Kobusingye, Adnan A. Hyder, David Bishai, Manjul Joshipura, Eduardo Romero Hicks and Charles Mock -- Ch. 69. Complementary and alternative medicine / Haile T. Debas, Ramanan Laxminerayan and Stephen E. Straus -- Ch. 70. Improving the quality of care in developing countries / John W. Peabody, Mario M. Taguiwalo, David A. Robalino and Julio Frenk -- Ch. 71. Health workers : building and motivating the workforce / Charles Hongoro and Charles Normand -- Ch. 72. Ensuring supplies of appropriate drugs and vaccines / Susan Foster, Richard Laing, Bjorn Melgaard and Michel Zaffran -- Ch. 73. Strategic management of clinical services / Alexander S. Preker, Martin McKee, Andrew Mitchell and Suwit Wilbulpolprasert.

ISBN

0821361791

LCCN

• 2006040099
• 9780821361795

OCLC

• ocm64588990
• SCSB-5245208

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Columbia University Libraries