A comprehensive global health examination, this book contributes substantially to global initiatives to improve the health of all peoples by providing a multidisciplinary understanding of fundamental issues and challenges, as well as effective interventions for the range of communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and risk factors. Chapter 20, on vaccine-preventable diseases, may be of particular interest, as well as several other chapters focused on various infectious diseases.

Author(s): Disease Control Priorities Project

Published: 2008

Resource types: Report

Diseases: Not disease/vaccine specific

Topics: Introduction and service delivery; Immunization financing; Disease burden and surveillance

Regions: Global