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The challenges of delivering cost‐effective and affordable care to children with cancer in the developing world
Author(s) -
Barr Ronald D.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.33279
Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , abandonment (legal) , disadvantage , environmental health , developing country , cancer , health care , family medicine , intensive care medicine , economic growth , population , political science , law , economics
While meeting conventional thresholds for cost‐effectiveness, the care of children with cancer in low and middle‐income countries is compromised by limited access to affordable medicines of high quality. Survival prospects are constrained further by high rates of abandonment of therapy, which are linked to socioeconomic disadvantage and the financial toxicity experienced by families in the care of their children with malignant disease.