Key Messages from DCP3, Volume 1: Essential Surgery

As part of the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition, the World Bank has published a volume on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health that identifies essential cost-effective health interventions that can be scaled-up now to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths, and stillbirths. This article summarizes the key findings and estimates the impact and cost of expanded implementation of these interventions. Scaling up all preventive and therapeutic health interventions in these integrated packages from current…

This review article from The Lancet summarizes the analyses from volume eight of Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3), published by the World Bank, entitled "Child and Adolescent Health and Development." The volume explores the health and developmental needs of children (ages 5-9) and adolescents (ages 10-19), and explores effective, scalable health interventions that can promote physical, cognitive, and intellectual development. The authors focus on two cost-effective intervention packages, one delivered in schools and one emphasizing later adolescence,…

This report from the World Bank is the ninth and final volume of the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) series. It provides an overview of the findings and methods explored in the first eight volumes, placing them within a framework that identifies an efficient pathway toward essential universal health coverage through the implementation of 21 essential packages that include health interventions and fiscal and intersectoral policies. The Disease Control Priorities Network (DCP) promotes and…