Friday, 28 October 2011

'Good health at low cost' 25 years on. What Makes a successful health system?

http://nexusclients.co.uk/ghlc/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/GHLC-book.pdf


'Why do some low and middle income countries manage to achieve good health outcomes while others fail? What factors drive improvements in the health system and in access to primary health care? How can we act on the social determinants of health in cash-strapped economies?

These questions are as relevant today as they were in 1985 when the Rockefeller Foundation published what was to become a seminal report - Good health at low cost. The report explored why some low and middle income countries achieved better health outcomes than others, making Good health at low cost essential reading for health systems decision- and policy-makers alike.

This new edition of Good health at low cost 25 years on draws on a series of new case studies from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Tamil Nadu and Thailand providing fresh insights into the role of effective institutions, innovation and country ownership in catalysing improvements in health.

New challenges such as increasing urbanisation, a growing private sector and an upsurge in non-communicable diseases suggest that both learning from the past and new thinking are required to strengthen health systems. This edition provides both and is a vital resource for academics, policy-makers and practitioners grappling with how to improve health in low and middle income countries..'

Thursday, 20 October 2011

vaccine of poverty in for action

“Millions of children’s lives could be saved by a new vaccine shown to halve the risk of malaria in the first large-scale trials across seven African countries,” reported The Guardian. It goes on to say that the long-awaited results of the largest-ever malaria vaccine study, involving 15,460 babies and small children, show that it could massively reduce the impact of the malaria.
The study reported .... links

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/10October/Pages/malaria-vaccine-trialled.aspx?mid=509

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1102287

Lets hope, it would be safe as well !
Good Luck !

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Let people be shareholder for their market land value in projects..Stop war on your own people

This write-up is dedicated to the memory of Ashis Mandloi, Rehmal Punia and Sobha of ‘Narmada Bacho Andolon’, Shri Dula Mandal of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samity, the martyrs of Kalinganagar, Kashipur and Nandigram, and numerous other struggles against forcible land grab……….
Peaceful resistance movements of tribal communities against their forced displacement and the corporate grab of their resources is being sought to be violently crushed by the use of police and security forces and State- and corporate-funded and armed militias. The state violence has been accentuated by Operation Green Hunt in which a huge number of paramilitary forces are being used against the tribals. The militarization of the State has reached a level where schools are occupied by security forces....
The Link
http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/displacement-the-indian-state%e2%80%99s-war-on-its-own-people/#comment-4449