Priorities in HealthWorld Bank Publications, 2006 M01 1 - 217 pages "This companion guide to Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition speeds the diffusion of life-saving knowledge by distilling the contents of the larger volume into an easily read format. Policy makers, practitioners, academics, and other interested readers will get an overview of the messages and analysis in Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition; be alerted to the scope of major diseases; learn strategies to improve policies and choices to implement cost-effective interventions; and locate chapters of immediate interest." |
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... patients whose treatment had previously been unsuccessful. Between 1999 and 2000, the number of people in these provinces with TB declined by more than 37 percent. In Peru, the DOTS program achieved a case detection rate of 70 percent ...
... patients whose treatment had previously been unsuccessful. Between 1999 and 2000, the number of people in these provinces with TB declined by more than 37 percent. In Peru, the DOTS program achieved a case detection rate of 70 percent ...
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... patients and communities in response to specific outbreaks. This strategy was crucial to eliminating the last remaining reservoirs of smallpox in five countries—Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, and Pakistan—even when one or more of ...
... patients and communities in response to specific outbreaks. This strategy was crucial to eliminating the last remaining reservoirs of smallpox in five countries—Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, and Pakistan—even when one or more of ...
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... patients ' vision with a success rate of 80 percent . In Morocco , mobile surgical units staffed by doctors and specialized nurses performed the surgery . Antibiotics : one - dose azithromycin to treat active infections and reduce the ...
... patients ' vision with a success rate of 80 percent . In Morocco , mobile surgical units staffed by doctors and specialized nurses performed the surgery . Antibiotics : one - dose azithromycin to treat active infections and reduce the ...
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... patients and their families. Indirect costs are often not monetary, especially the costs of people's time, and are hard to estimate consistently. When such costs are high, they make interventions appear not to be cost-effective, but the ...
... patients and their families. Indirect costs are often not monetary, especially the costs of people's time, and are hard to estimate consistently. When such costs are high, they make interventions appear not to be cost-effective, but the ...
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... patients and family members spend in obtaining a service or the cost of transportation to reach facilities. When more costs are included, the cost per unit of health gain will be higher and the inter- vention will appear to be less cost ...
... patients and family members spend in obtaining a service or the cost of transportation to reach facilities. When more costs are included, the cost per unit of health gain will be higher and the inter- vention will appear to be less cost ...
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Page xiv - Organization is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
Page 45 - East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Page xiv - Organization [1946] currently defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Page 187 - In 1992-93, he temporarily rejoined the World Bank to serve as lead author for the Bank's 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health.
Page 25 - Prevalence of chlid maInutrition is the percentage of children whose weight is more than two standard deviations below the median reference standard for their age as established by the US National Center for Health Statistics, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization. The data are based on a sample of children who survived to age three, four, or five years, depending on the country.