Our youth and Our emerging nation

Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Speech in Bangalore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAuCLy1PIq0&feature=email

Good Health at Low Cost 25 years on

Book review:
Title: Good Health at Low Cost 25 years on
Editors: Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee, Anne Mills

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.
Reference:
http://ghlc.lshtm.ac.uk/

Book Review:

Title: We are all the same: A story of a boy's courage and a mother's love

 by Jim Wooten
Nkosi Johnson, a South African boy born with AIDS, was given only a few years to live, but his ailing mother crossed her country's divisions of race and class to bring him to Gail Johnson who raised him for his last year of life. Nkosi, in Nelson Mandela's words, was "an icon of the struggle for life."

Award-winning correspondent for ABC World News and "Nightline" Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into poverty in a shantytown and given only a few years to live. But his ailing mother managed to cross her countrys divisions of race and class to bring him to Gail Johnson, who would raise him for her. Before his own death at the age of twelve, Nkosi had become, in Nelson Mandelas words, an icon of the struggle for life for millions in Africa and around the world. And he had changed Wootens life in ways Wooten is still discovering. "We Are All the Same" is a work of Biblical simplicity and power that reveals the astonishing resilience of the human spirit.

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