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b'LONDON\\u2014Why 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?\\nLow and middle-income countries can achieve good health, without having to spend large amounts of money: they simply need to apply identifiable techniques and to have particular philosophies. This is the message emerging from a new book: entitled: Good Health At Low Cost just launched in London. It\\u2019s the result of painstaking research into health outcomes from different healthcare policies around the world.\\nThe book follows on from research in 1985 when the Rockefeller Foundation published what was to become a seminal report \\u2014 Good Health At Low Cost \\u2014 which became essential reading for health systems decision- and policy-makers alike.\\nThe new book draws on a series of up to date 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.\\nPeter Goodwin talked with the book\\u2019s authors: Anne Mills, Martin McKee and Dina Balabanova, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.'