In addition to developing essential packages some DCP3 volumes identify one or more
“augmented” packages that delineate next steps after the essential interventions are …

Summary The World Bank will publish the nine volumes of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd
edition, in 2015–16. Volume 1—Essential Surgery—identifies 44 surgical procedures as …

The Chinese Government recently approved guidelines for reform of the health-care system
and published an action plan of targets for reform in 2009–11. 1, 2 Estimates suggest that …

Summary The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP), a joint project of the Fogarty
International Center of the US National Institutes of Health, the WHO, and The World Bank …

About this Series: From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused
attention on delivering efficacious health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions …

Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country,
more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have …

Effective interventions exist for many priority health problems in low income countries; prices
are falling, and funds are increasing. However, progress towards agreed health goals …

In September, 2018, The Lancet Global HealthCommission on High Quality Health Systems
(HQSS Commission) detailed the state of health system quality in low-income and middle …

Health does not begin in clinics or hospitals any more than justice begins in law courts or
peace starts on the battlefield. Rather, health starts with the conditions in which we are born …

The end of 2015 will signal the end of the Millennium Development Goal era, when the
world can take stock of what has been achieved. The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal …