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 essential on the basis that they address substantial needs, are cost effective, and are feasible to implement. This report summarises and critically assesses the volume's five key findings. First, provision of essential surgical p...

Parasitic diseases present a considerable socio-economic impact to society. Zoonotic parasites can result in a considerable burden of disease in people and substantive economic losses to livestock populations. Ameliorating the effects of these diseases may consist of attempts at eradicating specific diseases at a global level, eliminating them at a national or local level or controlling them to...

The publication of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition (DCP3) is a major milestone in the global health world. DCP3 reviews and summarizes high quality health intervention effectiveness and cost-effectiveness evidence relevant to low- and middle-income countries and is freely available to users...

The Disease Control Priorities program (DCP) has pioneered the use of economic evidence in health. The theory of change (ToC) put forward by Norheim is a further welcome and necessary step towards translating DCP evidence into better priority setting in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We also agree that institutionalising evidence for informed priority-setting processes is crucial. Un...

The control of communicable diseases is a core function of government, which must be achieved through collaboration with clinicians, laboratory scientists, affected communities, and other government and community-based agencies. Changes in environmental and social conditions, and the development of new prevention technologies, influence the incidence of communicable diseases and the community’s...

www.thelancet.com Published online February 5, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60097-6 1 In 1993 the World Bank published the fi rst edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP1), an attempt to systematically assess the cost-eff ectiveness of interventions for the major sources of disease burden in low-income and middle-income countries. World Bank staff in t...

This report provides a review and analysis of the research landscape for zoonoses and marginalized infections which affect poor populations, and a list of research priorities to support disease control. The work is the output of the Disease Reference Group on Zoonoses and Marginalized Infectious Diseases of Poverty (DRG6), which is part of an independent think tank of international experts, est...