- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Editors
- Advisory Committee to the Editors
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Disease Control Priorities Project Partners
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Summary and Cross-Cutting Themes
- Chapter 1. Investing in Health
- Chapter 2. Intervention Cost-Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
- Chapter 3. Strengthening Health Systems
- Chapter 4. Priorities for Global Research and Development of Interventions
- Chapter 5. Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future
- Chapter 6. Product Development Priorities
- Chapter 7. Economic Approaches to Valuing Global Health Research
- Chapter 8. Improving the Health of Populations: Lessons of Experience
- Chapter 9. Millennium Development Goals for Health: What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress?
- Chapter 10. Gender Differentials in Health
- Chapter 11. Fiscal Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Chapter 12. Financing Health Systems in the 21st Century
- Chapter 13. Recent Trends and Innovations in Development Assistance for Health
- Chapter 14. Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation, Research, and New Product Development
- Chapter 15. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Priority Setting
- Selecting Interventions
- Chapter 16. Tuberculosis
- Chapter 17. Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Chapter 18. HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment
- Chapter 19. Diarrheal Diseases
- Chapter 20. Vaccine-preventable Diseases
- Chapter 21. Conquering Malaria
- Chapter 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy
- Chapter 23. Tropical Diseases Lacking Adequate Control Measures: Dengue, Leishmaniasis, and African Trypanosomiasis
- Chapter 24. Helminth Infections: Soil-transmitted Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis
- Chapter 25. Acute Respiratory Infections in Children
- Chapter 26. Maternal and Perinatal Conditions
- Chapter 27. Newborn Survival
- Chapter 28. Stunting, Wasting, and Micronutrient Deficiency Disorders
- Chapter 29. Health Service Interventions for Cancer Control in Developing Countries
- Chapter 30. Diabetes: The Pandemic and Potential Solutions
- Chapter 31. Mental Disorders
- Chapter 32. Neurological Disorders
- Chapter 33. Cardiovascular Disease
- Chapter 34. Inherited Disorders of Hemoglobin
- Chapter 35. Respiratory Diseases of Adults
- Chapter 36. Diseases of the Kidney and the Urinary System
- Chapter 37. Skin Diseases
- Chapter 38. Oral and Craniofacial Diseases and Disorders
- Chapter 39. Unintentional Injuries
- Chapter 40. Interpersonal Violence
- Chapter 41. Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion
- Chapter 42. Indoor Air Pollution
- Chapter 43. Air and Water Pollution: Burden and Strategies for Control
- Chapter 44. Prevention of Chronic Disease by Means of Diet and Lifestyle Changes
- Chapter 45. The Growing Burden of Risk from High Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, and Bodyweight
- Chapter 46. Tobacco Addiction
- Chapter 47. Alcohol
- Chapter 48. Illicit Opiate Abuse
- Chapter 49. Learning and Developmental Disabilities
- Chapter 50. Loss of Vision and Hearing
- Chapter 51. Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Musculoskeletal Conditions
- Chapter 52. Pain Control for People with Cancer and AIDS
- Strengthening Health Systems
- Chapter 53. Public Health Surveillance: A Tool for Targeting and Monitoring Interventions
- Chapter 54. Information to Improve Decision Making for Health
- Chapter 55. Drug Resistance
- Chapter 56. Community Health and Nutrition Programs
- Chapter 57. Contraception
- Chapter 58. School-based Health and Nutrition Programs
- Chapter 59. Adolescent Health Programs
- Chapter 60. Occupational Health
- Chapter 61. Natural Disaster Mitigation and Relief
- Chapter 62. Control and Eradication
- Chapter 63. Integrated Management of the Sick Child
- Chapter 64. General Primary Care
- Chapter 65. The District Hospital
- Chapter 66. Referral Hospitals
- Chapter 67. Surgery
- Chapter 68. Emergency Medical Services
- Chapter 69. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Chapter 70. Improving the Quality of Care in Developing Countries
- Chapter 71. Health Workers: Building and Motivating the Workforce
- Chapter 72. Ensuring Supplies of Appropriate Drugs and Vaccines
- Chapter 73. Strategic Management of Clinical Services
- Glossary