This chapter briefly describes cancer incidence and mortality in low- and middle-income countries and outlines key global players involved in agenda setting for the control, treatment and overall management of cancers globally. The prevalence, morbidity, mortality and causes (infections, tobacco...

This chapter reviews basic science, practice and policy related to mental health and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in African settings. It presents the prevalence and epidemiological research on the co-occurrence of NCDs and mental disorders. It discusses the global agenda for mental health and...

This chapter presents examples of how both costs and benefits of diseases and disease control can cross from animals to humans, and vice versa. These examples span from joint human and animal vaccination services for mobile pastoralists in Chad and brucellosis control in Mongolia, to rabies control ...