Product Description: "The papers assembled in this offering are the outcome of a path-breaking symposium on HIV and Human Rights organised by the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, in partnership with Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) and The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)...read more

Product Description: • Does investing in health raise economic growth? • Can governments achieve rapid growth or high incomes without investing in health? • What are the options and benefits of different analytic approaches to measuring the causal link between health and growth? • Have medical advances influenced life expectancy levels? • Do health investments lead to higher individual productivity? • Why are investments in early childhood development and nutrition important? • How do governments invest in improving health status? • Where should governments invest in health to improve the welfare and health status of the population? • What are the pitfalls in public health care provision and finance? • How can public investments raise health status and household productivity?This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge on the relationship between health and economic growth...read more

Product Description: This companion guide to 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' speeds the diffusion of life-saving knowledge by distilling the contents of the larger volume into an easily read format.Policy makers, practitioners, academics, and other interested readers will get an overview of the messages and analysis in 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition'; be alerted to the scope of major diseases; learn strategies to improve policies and choices to implement cost-effective interventions; and locate chapters of immediate interest...read more