Practical measurement of affordability: an application to medicines

• Egile Nagusiak: LM Niëns (Egilea), E Van de Poel (Egilea), A Cameron (Egilea), M Ewen (Egilea), R Laing (Egilea), WBF Brouwer (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: The World Health Organization, 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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OBJECTIVE: To develop two practical methods for measuring the affordability of medicines in developing countries. METHODS: The proposed methods - catastrophic and impoverishment methods - rely on easily accessible aggregated expenditure data and take into account a country's income distribution...