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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Good health at low cost: from slogan to wicked problem<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The Lancet, </span></font></b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Volume 379,
Issue 9815, Pages 509 - 510, 11 February 2012<b><span style="font-weight:bold">
</span></b>at: <a href="http://bit.ly/wceLXg" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/wceLXg</span></font></a><b><span style="font-weight:bold"> <u></u><u></u></span></b></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Good Health at Low
Cost 25 Years On: What Makes a Successful health System?<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee, Anne
Mills<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The <u></u><u></u>London<u></u> <u></u>School<u></u><u></u>
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2011<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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Download a free copy from <a href="http://bit.ly/oJiaPA%20ISBN-9780902657847" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style>http://bit.ly/oJiaPA ISBN-9780902657847</span></font></a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“…..In 1985, the
Rockefeller Foundation organised a Bellagio conference that produced the book,
Good Health at Low Cost—a slogan that captured the imagination of the
global health community. On the basis of four cases—China, Sri Lanka,
Costa Rica, and the Indian state of Kerala—the book examined how
countries with fairly low income could achieve health indicators similar to, or
even better than, comparable high-income countries. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The book concluded that good health
can be accelerated by political commitment to health equity, broad-based
education, especially of women, and well-performing basic health systems.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">25 years later, the Rockefeller
Foundation commissioned an international study team, led by the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, to revisit the slogan. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">This time the book's focus is on
“what makes a successful health system?” Five fresh cases are
examined—<u></u>Bangladesh<u></u>, <u></u>Ethiopia<u></u>, <u></u>Kyrgyzstan<u></u>,
<u></u><u></u>Thailand<u></u><u></u>,
and the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Good Health at Low Cost 25 Years On assigns
chapters to each country to highlight core messages, present health conditions,
analyse health systems, and explore wider issues. An update of the original
countries also features, alongside an analysis of health systems in the context
of political and socioeconomic factors.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The original slogan ignited popular
imagination because its timing matched global efforts to translate the
Declaration of Alma-Ata for Health for All in all countries at all economic
levels. What seemed most inspiring was the message that even the poorest
countries could achieve good health…..”<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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