This monograph Tuberculosis and public health: policy and principles in tuberculosis control, by Dr Thuridur Arnadottir, was inspired by the policy model developed in national programs collaborating with The Union as well as by countless debates with lay people and health professionals both within and outside tuberculosis programs. The aim in publishing it is to share experiences and thoughts that concern tuberculosis work in high-prevalence countries.

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The success of improving the quality of care for tuberculosis patients has been recognised, and leads us to believe that similar improvements in quality of services should also be possible for other conditions. With funding from the World Bank, and building on The Union’s base of field experience in the care for children with pneumonia, for smoking cessation and improvement in the quality of care for asthma patients, we have tested a comprehensive approach to improving health services for a broad range of diseases. These publications form the basis of this approach.

This new CD-ROM includes the following publications, which are also available for free download from The Union website:

• Tobacco cessation interventions for tuberculosis patients: a guide for low-income countries, 2008
• Management of the child with cough or difficult breathing: a guide for low income countries, Second edition, 2005
• Inpatient management of childhood pneumonia: clinical course: Instructor Manual – Participant Manual – Slide Presentations, 2005
• Lung Health consequences of exposure to smoke from domestic use of solid fuels. a guide for low-income countries on what it is and what to do about it, 2009
• Management of asthma: a guide to the essentials of good clinical practice, Third edition, 2008
• Management of asthma: Instructor Manual – Participant Manual – Slide Presentations, 2008
• Participating in global tobacco research: the experience of a low-income country, Sudan, 2009

Publication of this CD was made possible thanks to the support of the World Bank.

The Union's International Tuberculosis Courses are available on CD-ROM. It replicates the website www.tbrieder.org and contains Union tuberculosis and research publications, slide shows (clinical, epidemiology, interventions) and course material (mycobacteriology, operations research). To view this material online, click here .

El Manual de Enfermedades Respiratorias de Pedro Cabrera Navarro y Felipe Rodríguez de Castro constituye una obra editorial dirigida a médicos generalistas, neumólogos en formación y especialistas no neumólogos. Esta era una necesidad de la neumología que no estaba cubierta en lengua española. La obra, tanto en su contenido como en su edición cumple con las condiciones que se exigen a un manual. El formato la hace muy manejable y sus 39 capítulos condensan, de forma concisa, el conocimiento actual de la neumología. Por todo ello, el Manual de Enfermedades Respiratorias cumple los requisitos para que tenga una amplia difusión en el ámbito de los profesionales hispanos dedicados al cuidado de los enfermos respiratorios.