This 200 page companion to ""Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition (DCP2)"" makes the larger body of work readily accessible to policymakers and a wider non-technical audience by synthesizing the larger works major themes and findings. Via this companion volume, policy makers, practitioners, academics, and the interested public can learn about DCP2's main messages, gain an understanding of its principal methods of analysis, appreciate the scope of diseases and issues covered, and are alerted to chapters of immediate interest.