'Good health at low cost' 25 years on
Subtitle: what makes a successful health system?
By: editors, Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee and Anne Mills
Contributors: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Publisher: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780902657847
Subjects: National health services; Case studies; Medical policy; Medical care; Cost of Medical care; Medical economics; Delivery of Health Care; Economics; Global Health; Socioeconomic Factors; Health Policy; Developing Countries
Description: Reviews the progress in five countries towards the goals set out in `Good health and low cost' - London : Rockefeller Foundation, 1985 ; and what happened to others viewed as successes 25 years ago -- [foreword, ix].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1 Introduction / Good Health at Low Cost Research Team; title: 2 Research approach and methods highlights from study countries / Good Health at Low Cost Research Team; title: 3 Health transcends poverty : the Bangladesh experience / Tracey Perez Koehlmoos [and others]; title: 4 Ethiopia : placing health at the centre of development / Hailom Banteyerga [and others]; title: 5 Kyrgyzstan : a regional leader in health system reform / Ainura Ibraimova [and others]; title: 6 Tamil Nadu 1980s-2005 : a success story in India / VR Muraleedharan, Umakant Dash and Lucy Gilson; title: 7 Why and how did Thailand achieve good health at low cost? / Walaiporn Patcharanarumol [and others]; title: 8 Good health at low cost revisited : further insights from China, Costa Rica, Kerala and Sri Lanka 25 years later / Benjamin Palafox; title: 9 The contribution of health systems to good health / Dina Balabanova, Lesong Conteh and Martin McKee; title: 10 Improving the lives of "half the sky"; title: how political, economic and social factors affect the health of women and their children / Andrew Harmer.