Millions Saved
Subtitle: Proven Successes In Global Health
Publisher: Center for Global Development
Published: November 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780881323726
Subjects: World health; Medical / Nursing; Health Care Delivery; Health & Fitness; Health/Fitness; Public Health; Healthy Living; Developing countries
First sentence: One of the greatest human accomplishments has been the spectacular improvement in health since 1950.
Description: This book provides a sample of the national, regional, and global public health efforts that we know, with confidence, have saved millions of lives and improved millions more. These cases meet a set of rigorous selection criteria: being large scale, having a duration of five years or more, employing a cost-effective intervention, and having a major impact on an important health problem Importantly, for these cases--as for a few others--sufficient investment was made in data collection and analysis to attribute changes in health conditions to the large-scale interventions or programs themselves. This fascinating new book shows that success is possible even in the poorest of counties and that a variety of approaches can be successful.