When political attention and scientific efforts are focused, widespread endemic diseases can be and have been controlled and even eradicated, and the United Nations body concerned with health recommends and describes five public-health strategies for preventing and controlling diseases that are not so heavily targeted. They are preventive chemotherapy; intensified case management; vector control; the provision of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene; and applying veterinary sciences in public health. Over half of the volume considers 17 specific diseases in turn. There is no index. Annotation ⓒ2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)