Comment: DCP3 - From Theory to Practice
2018
In this comment article from The Lancet, authors Pamela Das and Richard Horton discuss the importance of the World Bank’s nine-volume series, Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3), which provides the most up-to-date evidence on intervention efficacy and program effectiveness for the leading causes of global disease burden. They describe how DCP3 provides a path for low- and lower-middle-income countries to achieve the goal set forth by the 2013 Lancet Commission on Investing in Health—to achieve a “grand convergence” in bringing preventable infectious, maternal, and child mortality rates to low levels by 2035—through the implementation of a basic health benefits package called “essential UHC” (EUHC).
They note that the 21 “essential packages” proposed in DCP3 contain a mix of intersectoral policies and health-sector interventions related to the topic areas of the nine DCP3 volumes, each of which can serve as a “building block for an explicit vision of EUHC designed to serve as a model or a starting point for country-specific definitions of EUHC.” The authors also argue that DCP3 is innovative in its categorization of the EUHC interventions into three temporal categories (urgent, continuing and important), and across five standardized delivery platforms (public health, community level, health centers, first-level hospitals, and specialized or referral hospitals), which helps countries prioritize and implement effective interventions.
Comment: DCP3 - From Theory to Practice
Source:
Das P, Horton R. Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition - From Theory to Practice. The Lancet 2018; 391 (10125): 9-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32905-7