Price, availability and affordability of medicines
Author(s) -
Brenda S. Mhlanga,
Fátima Suleman
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
african journal of primary health care and family medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2071-2936
pISSN - 2071-2928
DOI - 10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.604
Subject(s) - essential medicines , pharmacy , private sector , wage , population , health care , government (linguistics) , public sector , access to medicines , business , public economics , developing country , medicine , environmental health , economic growth , economics , labour economics , family medicine , linguistics , philosophy , economy
Medicines play an important role in healthcare, but prices can be a barrier to patient care. Few studies have looked at the prices of essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries in terms of patient affordability.
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