In 2015-16 some 38% of preschool children in India were stunted, 21% wasted, and more than half Indian mothers young anemic. Though widely studied, surprisingly little research on malnutrition explores the role diets, particularly affordability nutritious diets given low wages significant structural problems facing India's agricultural sector. To explore this we used nationally representative r...

The relationship between elderly suicide rates and the affordability of psychotropic drugs A recent cross-national study of 62 developing and developed countries reported an increase in suicide rates with aging in males and females in 25 and 27 countries respectively (Shah, 2007). Longitudinal studies over time have reported a decline in elderly suicide rates in England and Wales (Gunnell et al...

Introduction: Studies have demonstrated that co-payments on medication reduce the consumption of both Abstract non-essential and essential drugs, and that the latter can lead to worse health outcomes. Far less is known about how patients cope with the cost of medication, particularly if affordability is an issue, and how this compares across two countries with different prescription charge poli...

BACKGROUND Access to health insurance is expected to have positive effect in improving access to healthcare and offer financial risk protection to households. Ghana began the implementation of a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2004 as a way to ensure equitable access to basic healthcare for all residents. After a decade of its implementation, national coverage is just about 34% of th...

Objective: To assess the price, availability and affordability of a sample of medicines in Vietnam. Methods: Data on the price and availability of 42 medicines were collected using the standard World Health Organization/Health Action International (WHO/HAI) methodology in five geographical areas in Vietnam. The median price of these medicines was compared with the Management Science for Health ...

Military budget cuts and increased competition in the commercial market have shifted the focus of aircraft design to include affordability concerns. This has resulted in the need for increased knowledge in the early stages of design when a high percentage of the available resources are committed. The Technology Identification, Evaluation and Selection methodology outlined herein provides the de...