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Case studies in global health : millions saved / Ruth Levine ; and the What Works Working Group.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Essential public healthPublication details: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2007.Description: xxxvi, 172 p. : ill. ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780763746209 (pbk.) :
  • 0763746207 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA441 .L48 2007
Contents:
Eradicating smallpox -- Preventing HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections in Thailand -- Controlling tuberculosis in China -- Reducing child mortality through vitamin A in Nepal -- Eliminating polio in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Saving mothers' lives in Sri Lanka -- Controlling onchocerciasis (river blindness) in sub-Saharan Africa -- Preventing diarrheal deaths in Egypt -- Improving the health of the poor in Mexico -- Controlling trachoma in Morocco -- Reducing guinea worm in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa -- Controlling chagas disease in the Southern cone of South America -- Reducing fertility in Bangladesh -- Curbing tobacco use in Poland -- Preventing iodine deficiency disease in China -- Preventing neural-tube defects in Chile -- Eliminating measles in Southern Africa -- Preventing dental caries in Jamacia -- Treating cataracts in India -- Preventing hib disease in Chile and the Gambia.

Eradicating smallpox -- Preventing HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections in Thailand -- Controlling tuberculosis in China -- Reducing child mortality through vitamin A in Nepal -- Eliminating polio in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Saving mothers' lives in Sri Lanka -- Controlling onchocerciasis (river blindness) in sub-Saharan Africa -- Preventing diarrheal deaths in Egypt -- Improving the health of the poor in Mexico -- Controlling trachoma in Morocco -- Reducing guinea worm in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa -- Controlling chagas disease in the Southern cone of South America -- Reducing fertility in Bangladesh -- Curbing tobacco use in Poland -- Preventing iodine deficiency disease in China -- Preventing neural-tube defects in Chile -- Eliminating measles in Southern Africa -- Preventing dental caries in Jamacia -- Treating cataracts in India -- Preventing hib disease in Chile and the Gambia.

Rev. ed. of: Millions saved. c2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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