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Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India
Highlights • Limited research focussing on the affordability of diets in India.• We model the least-cost means of meeting national dietary guidelines.• We assess the affordability of this least-cost diet against wage data.• Diets are highly unaffordable,
K. Raghunathan, D. Headey, A. Herforth
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Background: Essential medicine is a vital component to assure universal access to quality healthcare. However, the trend of affordability to essential medicines in China and its regional differences were not yet fully understood.
Zheng Liu +53 more
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Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and Affordability
Growing numbers of affordable housing advocates and community members are questioning the premise that increasing the supply of market-rate housing will result in housing that is more affordable. Economists and other experts who favor increases in supply
Vicki Been, I. Ellen, K. O’Regan
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How affordable is HUD affordable housing?
AbstractThis article assesses the affordability of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental assistance properties from the perspective of transportation costs. HUD housing is, by definition, affordable from the standpoint of housing costs due to limits on the amounts renters are required to pay.
Shima Hamidi, Reid Ewing, John Renne
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The Affordances of Broken Affordances [PDF]
We consider the use of physical and virtual objects having one or more affordances associated to simple interactions with them. Based on Kaptelinin and Nardi’s notion of instrumental affordance, we investigate what it means to break an affordance, and the two ensuing questions we deem most important: how users may (i) achieve their goals in the ...
Grünbaum, Martin Gielsgaard +1 more
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Objective: The study aimed to evaluate the impact of the National Health Insurance Coverage (NHIC) policy on the utilisation and accessibility of innovative anti-cancer medicines in Nanjing, China.Methods: We used the adjusted World Health Organisation ...
Wenqing Fang +7 more
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What do aesthetic affordances afford?
This paper explores various notions of aesthetic affordance recently developed through embodied, situated and enactive approaches to aesthetic experience by Maria Brincker and Shaun Gallagher, and the similarities and differences between them and the idea of affective affordance put forward by Joel Krueger and Giovanna Colombetti.
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Introduction Emerging long‐acting (LA) prevention and treatment medicines, technologies and regimens could be game‐changing for the HIV response, helping reach the ambitious goal of halting the epidemic by 2030.
Lobna Gaayeb +6 more
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Long way to go: Progress of orphan drug accessibility in China from 2017 to 2022
Introduction: Over 400 million patients worldwide suffer from rare diseases. Access to orphan drugs is, therefore, crucial for this population. China has been actively working on improving orphan drug accessibility in the past decades, especially since ...
Jia Liu +7 more
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The political consequences of housing (un)affordability
The enormous growth in house prices in Europe since the 1990s has led to increasing concerns about the affordability of housing for ordinary citizens. This article explores the relationship between housing affordability – house prices relative to incomes
Ben W. Ansell, Asli Cansunar
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