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Lived experience of affordability as a barrier to prescription medicines: A longitudinal qualitative study

open access: yesExploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy
Background: Lack of affordability is a major barrier to medicines access in many countries. It can result in ethnic and other inequities in medicines use and these have been documented in New Zealand.
Pauline Norris   +6 more
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Southern regionalisms, Global agendas: Innovating inclusive access to health, medicines and social protection in a context of social inequity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This Policy Brief highlights key findings from an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Department for International Development-funded international social policy research project examining the scope for enhancing the contributions of Southern ...
Yeates, Nicola
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Access to Medicines

open access: yes, 2015
This thesis investigates four cross-cutting controversies in access to medicines – aspects of pharmaceutical R&D, equity, generics policy and scale up. Chapter 2 describes the state of pharmaceutical research and development (R&D). It finds that failure rates remain high with the probability of market entry for vaccines being just 1.8%.
openaire   +2 more sources

Access to Essential Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Health
ObjectivesTo conduct a systematic review to analyze the barriers and facilitators related to accessing essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).MethodsWe searched PubMed, SciELO, LILACS, and Web of Science for studies published ...
Israel Herrera-Ramirez   +4 more
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Which Medicine? Medicine-Taking and Changing Sherpa Lives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
An increasing quantity of medicines, including medicines of different healing systems, have become available since the nineteen fifties to the mainly Sherpa inhabitants of the Mt. Everest region of Nepal.
Heydon, Susan
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The Battle to Define Asia’s Intellectual Property Law: From TPP to RCEP [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A battle is under way to decide the intellectual property law for half the world’s population. A trade agreement that hopes to create a free trade area even larger than that forged by Genghis Khan will define intellectual property rules across much of ...
Chander, Anupam, Sunder, Madhavi
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Growth in expenditure on high cost drugs in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper provides an overview of the expenditure of high cost drugs in Australia and examines the average annual growth of these programs. The outlook for expenditure on high cost medicines and possible policy responses is also considered.
Rebecca de Boer, Roy Harvey
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