Disease Control Priorities Project

The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) is an ongoing project that aims to determine priorities for disease control across the world, particularly in low-income countries. The project is most well known for the second edition of the report Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (published in 2006, often abbreviated as DCP2 and sometimes referred to as "the DCP2 Report").

The Disease Control Priorities Project is a joint enterprise of a number of groups, including the University of Washington Department of Global Health, the World Bank, the Fogarty International Center (National Institutes of Health), World Health Organization, Population Reference Bureau, Gates Foundation, and the International Decision Support Initiative. Notable editors involved in the project include Dean Jamison, Alan Lopez, Colin Mathers, Christopher J.L. Murray, George Alleyne, Prabhat Jha, and Anne Mills.

Publications

DCP1

The first edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, commonly referred to as DCP1, was published in 1993. DCP1 is cited in the 1993 World Development Report.

DCP1 is organized into five parts:

 Introduction
 The Unfinished Agenda, I · Infectious Disease
 The Unfinished Agenda, II · Reproductive Health and Malnutrition
 Emerging Problems
 Conclusion

Each part has chapters within it; there are 29 chapters in all. The report spans more than 700 pages and has as contributors 79 authors in addition to the four editors.

DCP2

The second edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, commonly referred to as DCP2 and sometimes referred to as "the DCP2 Report", was published in 2006. DCP2 is organized into 73 chapters, and is a 1400-page report by more than 350 specialists around the world with the goal of providing policy recommendations to reduce global disease burdens. The report is in English, but translations for some of the chapters to Arabic, Chinese, French, and Spanish are available. The report has been released under the Creative Commons attribution license (CC-BY) and a copy of DCP2 can be downloaded from the World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository. The full text of the report can also be read online on the National Center for Biotechnology Information (National Institutes of Health) website.

In comparison to DCP1, DCP2 is more systematic in its coverage.

DCP3

For third edition, the name of the report was shortened to Disease Control Priorities. The third edition is commonly referred to as DCP3, and is under preparation and is expected to be published over the time period 2015–2016. It has nine separate volumes. The final and summary volume will be published in 2016. Separate volumes on cancer and surgery will be published earlier. Toby Ord of Giving What We Can is on the board.

As of April 2016, four of nine volumes of DCP3 have been published online.

The nine volumes are as follows:

 Essential Surgery
 Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
 Cancer
 Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders
 Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Related Disorders
 Major Infectious Diseases
 Injury Prevention and Environmental Health
 Child & Adolescent Development
 Disease Control Priorities (summary volume)

Other publications

In addition to DCP1, DCP2, and DCP3, the DCPP has produced other background papers and major publications. These include the following:

 Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (Lopez and others 2006) with the World Health Organization
 Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (Levine and the What Works Working Group 2004) with the Center for Global Development
 "The Intolerable Burden of Malaria: II. What's New, What's Needed" (Breman, Alilio, and Mills 2004) with the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria
 Priorities in Health (Jamison and others 2006), a nontechnical companion to DCP2

See also

 Copenhagen Consensus
 Millions Saved
 Voices of the Poor
 Moving Out of Poverty

References

External links
 

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