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<div><pre style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">From:</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"> Dan Chisholm - Health Economist HQ/MER Mental Health: Evidence and Research WHO <br>
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<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Cost-effectiveness of strategies to combat non-communicable diseases NCDs and injury in low- and middle-income countries <br>
(WHO-CHOICE series)<br>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“….The
recent high level meeting on non-communicable diseases at a special session of
the United Nations General Assembly and subsequent political declaration provides
a political mandate and an unprecedented opportunity to develop an
international policy framework for the prevention and control of
non-communicable diseases. In developing regions with a high disease burden, a
key action in support of this strategy is generation of the evidence on the
interventions that work best at the lowest cost in the prevention and control
of non-communicable disease and injuries.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">In this series of
articles, <b><span style="font-weight:bold">WHO-CHOICE</span></b> examines the
relative cost effectiveness of a comprehensive set of interventions and
strategies for combating major non-communicable diseases and injury in
economically developing regions of the world: the first paper covers
cardiovascular disease and some of its key risk factors (including raised blood
pressure, raised blood cholesterol, and tobacco use), and the subsequent ones
assess respiratory disease (asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease),
cancer (of the breast, cervix, and colon or rectum), neuropsychiatric disorders
(schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, depression, harmful alcohol use,
and epilepsy), sense organ diseases (including cataract, trachoma, refractive
error, and hearing loss), and road traffic injury. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">We also provide a
companion paper that shows the use of these methods at the country level (<u></u><u></u>Mexico<u></u><u></u>)….”<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN">What
are the priorities for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and
injuries in sub-Saharan Africa and <u></u>South East Asia<u></u>?<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Overview article (BMJ comment):</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://bit.ly/zmfrJF" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/zmfrJF</span></font></a> <br>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">“…..Comparative
analysis of value for money in health<br>
….We have assessed the costs and effects of over 500 single or combined
interventions for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and
injuries in countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia that have high
adult and child mortality. We have considered most of the leading contributors
to this burden: cardiovascular disease and diabetes, chronic respiratory
diseases, cancer, sensory loss disorders, mental disorders and road
traffic injury….”<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">BMJ
Research articles:<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">CVD, diabetes and tobacco: <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e607" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style>http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e607</span></font></a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="NO-BOK">COPD / asthma: </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e608" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style lang="NO-BOK">http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e608</span></font></a></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="NO-BOK"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="NO-BOK">Cancer: </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e614" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style lang="NO-BOK">http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e614</span></font></a></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="NO-BOK"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="NO-BOK">Sensory disorders: </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e615" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style lang="NO-BOK">http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e615</span></font></a></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="NO-BOK"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Neuropsychiatric
conditions: </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e609" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style lang="FR">http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e609</span></font></a></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Road traffic injuries: <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e612" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style>http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e612</span></font></a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Country-based
analysis (<u></u><u></u>Mexico<u></u><u></u>):</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e355" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style>http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e355</span></font></a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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