[afro-nets] Priorities in Health

[Claudio Schuftan <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

Priorities in Health
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Claudio Schuftan
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Priorities in Health

EDITORS

Dean T. Jamison, Joel G. Breman Anthony R. Measham, George Al-
leyne, Mariam Claeson, David B. Evans, Prabhat Jha, Anne Mills,
Philip Musgrove

The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) is a joint enter-
prise of The World Bank, the Fogarty International Center (FIC)
of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the World Health Or-
ganization (WHO), and the Population Reference Bureau. The NIH
National Library of Medicine (NLM) is also a partner. DCPP is
funded principally through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.
April 2006 ISBN: 0-8213-6260-7

Available online at: http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/PIH
PDF version [236 pp. 1.2 MB] at:
http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/PIH/PIH.pdf

Delivering efficacious and inexpensive health interventions
leads to dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at mod-
est cost. Globalization has been diffusing the knowledge about
what these interventions are and how to deliver them. The pace
of this diffusion into a country-more than its level of income-
determines the tempo of health improvement in that country.

Two overarching themes emerge from the extensive research and
analyses:

* Current resources can yield substantial health gains if knowl-
edge of cost-effective interventions were applied more fully.

* Additional resources are needed in low-income countries to
minimize the glaring inequities in health care. Increased re-
sources would provide highly-effective interventions, expand re-
search, and extend basic health coverage to more people.