Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 3. Cancer

From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused attention on delivering efficacious health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at relatively modest cost. The approach has been multidisciplinary, and the recommendations have been evid...

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Main Authors: Gelband, Hellen, Jha, Prabhat, Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy, Horton, Susan
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Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2015
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spelling okr-10986-225522021-04-23T14:04:09Z Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 3. Cancer Gelband, Hellen Jha, Prabhat Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy Horton, Susan Gelband, Hellen Jha, Prabhat Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy Horton, Susan Jamison, Dean T. Nugent, Rachel Laxminarayan, Ramanan cancer disease control priorities health access to health care cancer control system patient monitoring From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused attention on delivering efficacious health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at relatively modest cost. The approach has been multidisciplinary, and the recommendations have been evidence-based, scalable, and adaptable in multiple settings. Better and more equitable health care is the shared responsibility of governments and international agencies, public and private sectors, and societies and individuals, and all of these partners have been involved in the development of the series. Volume 3, Cancer, presents the complex patterns of cancer incidence and death around the world and evidence on effective and cost-effective ways to control cancers. The DCP3 evaluation of cancer will indicate where cancer treatment is ineffective and wasteful, and offer alternative cancer care packages that are cost-effective and suited to low-resource settings. 2015-08-27T19:29:17Z 2015-08-27T19:29:17Z 2015-11-12 Book 978-1-4648-0349-9 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22552 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication
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topic cancer
disease control priorities
health
access to health care
cancer control system
patient monitoring
spellingShingle cancer
disease control priorities
health
access to health care
cancer control system
patient monitoring
Gelband, Hellen
Jha, Prabhat
Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy
Horton, Susan
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 3. Cancer
description From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused attention on delivering efficacious health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at relatively modest cost. The approach has been multidisciplinary, and the recommendations have been evidence-based, scalable, and adaptable in multiple settings. Better and more equitable health care is the shared responsibility of governments and international agencies, public and private sectors, and societies and individuals, and all of these partners have been involved in the development of the series. Volume 3, Cancer, presents the complex patterns of cancer incidence and death around the world and evidence on effective and cost-effective ways to control cancers. The DCP3 evaluation of cancer will indicate where cancer treatment is ineffective and wasteful, and offer alternative cancer care packages that are cost-effective and suited to low-resource settings.
author2 Gelband, Hellen
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Jha, Prabhat
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Horton, Susan
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Jha, Prabhat
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Horton, Susan
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title Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 3. Cancer
title_short Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 3. Cancer
title_full Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 3. Cancer
title_fullStr Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 3. Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 3. Cancer
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