Cardiovascular, respiratory, and related conditions cause more than 40 percent of all deaths globally, and their substantialburden is rising, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Their burden extends well beyond health effects to include significanteconomic and societal...

Summary and recommendations -- The changing global burden of cancer : transitions in human development and implications for cancer prevention and control -- Breast cancer -- Cervical cancer -- Oral cancer : prevention, early detection, and treatment -- Colorectal cancer -- Treating childhood...

Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health : an overview / Robert Black, Marleen Temmerman, and Neff Walker -- The burden of reproductive ill health / Alex Ezeh, Abdhalah K. Ziraba, John Cleland, Akinrinota Bankole, anmd Claudia Garcia Moreno Esteva -- Levels and causes of maternal...

As the culminating volume in the DCP3 series, volume 9 will provide an overview of DCP3 findings and methods, a summary of messages and substantive lessons to be taken from DCP3, and a further discussion of cross-cutting and synthesizing topics across the first eight volumes. The introductory...