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        <description>Population and Health InfoShare : Newest 15 Documents by Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP). Sharing Knowledge to Improve Public Health Worldwide</description>
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            <title>Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for Health</title>
            <link>http://www.dcp2.org/file/67/DCPP%20-%20MDGs.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted by 147 heads of state in 2001, address the world’s most staggering health and poverty issues (see Table 1). Meeting the goals, or even substantial progress towards meeting them, would produce a healthier, more economically sound world. Some progress has been made, but it is lopsided – both regionally
and within countries...]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:53:11 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Growing Diabetes Pandemic</title>
            <link>http://www.dcp2.org/file/65/DCPP--Diabetes.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[(first paragraph) Diabetes is a metabolic disease that results from defects in the secretion or activity of insulin within a person’s body.
Diabetes has many potential health complications, including coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, blindness, kidney disease, and lower-extremity amputation. There are three basic types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, which
most often strikes children and young adults, occurs when
the destruction of pancreatic cells causes insulin deficiency.
Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 85 percent to 95 percent
of all cases, is usually characterized by insulin resistance when
the body no longer uses insulin properly. A third type is
gestational diabetes, which appears only during pregnancy.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:32:50 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Drug Resistance Fact Sheet</title>
            <link>http://www.dcp2.org/file/63/Drug%20Resistance.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[(first paragraph) Controlling the deadliest infectious diseases in the world—diarrheal diseases, respiratory tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, meningitis, pneumonia, and hospitalacquired infections—is more difficult today because of the emergence of antimicrobial drug resistance. Resistance has emerged in malaria, HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and most bacterial infections, which together constitute a significant proportion of the burden of disease in developing countries.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:29:44 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Improving Quality of Clinical Care Fact Sheet</title>
            <link>http://www.dcp2.org/file/59/DCPP--Health%20Care%20Workers.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[(first paragraph) Despite the urgency of improving health in developing
countries, quality of care has been largely ignored. For example, researchers who directly observed clinical practices found that 75 percent of cases in a seven-country study were not adequately diagnosed, treated, or monitored, and that
inappropriate treatment with antibiotics, fluids, feeding, or
oxygen occurred in more than half of the cases.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:27:23 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mental and Neurological Disorders Fact Sheet</title>
            <link>http://www.dcp2.org/file/60/DCPP--Mental%20Health.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[(first paragraph) Mental and neurological disorders affect more than 450 million people globally, causing substantial disability rates
and suffering and making major contributions to the world’s total disease burden. About 13 percent of disability-adjusted life years (or DALYs, a measure of the amount of health lost due to a particular disease or condition) are due to mental
and neurological disorders.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:24:58 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Child Health Fact Sheet</title>
            <link>http://www.dcp2.org/file/61/DCPP--Child%20Health.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[(first paragraph) Before 1800, deaths of infants and children were commonplace even in rich families. And poor childhood nourishment left
most people stunted by today’s standards. Now, however, many infectious diseases are under control,
and better nutrition and overall health conditions have lowered mortality rates for everyone, especially children. But sadly, these gains have not been uniform and have not happened at the same rate around the world. As of 2001, some 19 percent of global deaths were among children—
and 99 percent of all child deaths took place in low- and middle-income countries. For example, a child born in
Ethiopia today has a 20 percent chance of dying before age fi ve, compared with a less than 1 percent chance for a child born in North America or Western Europe.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:22:05 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Noncommunicable Diseases Fact Sheet</title>
            <link>http://www.dcp2.org/file/58/DCPP-NCD.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[(first paragraph) Developing countries are now undergoing the same dramatic shift in the causes of illness and death that developed countries experienced after 1900. Communicable diseases are no longer the only threat: Because of changes in diet and lifestyle as well as rapid population aging in developing countries, major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—such as circulatory system diseases, cancers, diabetes, major psychiatric disorders, and chronic respiratory diseases—are now quickly adding to the worldwide burden of disease (see table).]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:18:52 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Women\'s Health - DCPP Express Book</title>
            <link>http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/expressbooks/womensh.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is an "express book" containing chapters on Women's Health from the Disease Control Priorities Project publications.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 21:13:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Vaccine Preventable Diseases - DCPP Express Books</title>
            <link>http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/expressbooks/vaccine.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is an "express book" containing chapters on Vaccine Preventable Diseases from the Disease Control Priorities Project publications.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 21:08:54 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Tropical Diseases - DCPP Express Book</title>
            <link>http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/expressbooks/tropica.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is an "express book" containing chapters on Tropical Diseases from the Disease Control Priorities Project publications.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 21:00:25 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Surgery - DCPP Express Book</title>
            <link>http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/expressbooks/surgery.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is an "express book" containing chapters on Surgery from the Disease Control Priorities Project publications.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 20:57:29 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Sexual Health - DCPP Express Book</title>
            <link>http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/expressbooks/sexualh.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is an "express book" containing chapters on Sexual Health from the Disease Control Priorities Project publications.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 20:47:55 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Sanitation - DCPP Express Book</title>
            <link>http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/expressbooks/sanitat.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is an "express book" containing chapters on Sanitation from the Disease Control Priorities Project publications.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 20:43:30 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Risk Factors - DCPP Express Book</title>
            <link>http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/expressbooks/riskfac.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is an "express book" containing chapters on Risk Factors from the Disease Control Priorities Project publications.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 20:30:10 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Respiratory Diseases</title>
            <link>http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/expressbooks/respira.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is an "express book" containing chapters on Respiratory Disease from the Disease Control Priorities Project publications.]]></description>
            <author>mmeisnere@prb.org (Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP))</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 20:24:33 +0100</pubDate>
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