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Working to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases [electronic resource] : first WHO report on neglected tropical diseases / [edited by David W.T. Crompton].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- World Health Organization Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tropical medicine.
- Communicable diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Neglected tropical diseases blight the lives of a billion people worldwide and threaten the health of millions more. These close companions of poverty weaken impoverished populations, frustrate the achievement of health in the Millennium Development Goals and impede global public health outcomes. Wider recognition of the public health significance of neglected tropical diseases and better knowledge of their epidemiology have stimulated necessary changes in public health thinking to approach and achieve control. The World Health Organization recommends five control strategies or intervention pr
- Contents:
- Working to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Executive summary; 1. Neglected tropical diseases: a paradigm shift; Sixty years of growing concern; Human and economic burden; Ways forward; Neglected tropical diseases in the world today; Global and regional plans for prevention and control; Conclusions; Annexes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-89746-2
- 9786612897467
- 92-4-068567-7
- OCLC:
- 693761482
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