نتایج جستجو برای: affordability

تعداد نتایج: 4105  

Abstract Abstract Background: Availability and affordability of medicines are crucial to achieving success in prevention programs, particularly in developing countries. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the availability and affordability of cardiovascular medicines for secondary prevention in Tehran province of Iran. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Tehran pro...

Journal: :Globalization and Health 2008
Ann S Goldman Robert Yee Christopher J Holmgren Habib Benzian

OBJECTIVE Dental caries remains the most common disease worldwide and the use of fluoride toothpaste is a most effective preventive public health measure to prevent it. Changes in diets following globalization contribute to the development of dental caries in emerging economies. The aim of this paper is to compare the cost and relative affordability of fluoride toothpaste in high-, middle- and ...

2014
Richard Poynder

The situation was further exacerbated by the fact that learned societies struggled to cope with the growing demand from researchers for publication outlets. Spotting a lucrative market opportunity, for-profit companies (led by Robert Maxwell’s Pergamon Press) began to launch new scholarly journals [2], and to invite learned societies to outsource their journals to them, on the promise that by d...

2011
Hans Lind Chen Yao

Housing affordability is the relationship between households’ income and housing expenditure. The public are very concerned about the high price of residential housing in Beijing, which is considered go beyond the income of average citizens. In order to fully understand the China’s real estate market, the paper first analyses the land policy, housing reform and housing finance, etc. Then this p...

Journal: :Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique 2015
Jeannie L Haggerty Jean-Frédéric Levesque

OBJECTIVE Direct measures of health care affordability from the user perspective are needed to monitor equitable access to publicly funded health care in Canada. The objective of our study was to develop a survey-based measure of healthcare affordability applicable to the Canadian context. METHODS We developed items after focus group exploration of access and cost barriers in the healthcare t...

2014
Katarzyna Bijak Lyn C. Thomas Christophe Mues

In the credit decision-making process, both an applicant’s creditworthiness and their affordability should be assessed. While credit scoring focuses on creditworthiness, affordability is often checked on the basis of current income and estimated current consumption as well as existing debts stated in a credit report. Contrary to that static approach, a theoretical framework for dynamic affordab...

Journal: :Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 2013
A Lee C N Mhurchu G Sacks B Swinburn W Snowdon S Vandevijvere C Hawkes M L'abbé M Rayner D Sanders S Barquera S Friel B Kelly S Kumanyika T Lobstein J Ma J Macmullan S Mohan C Monteiro B Neal C Walker

Food prices and food affordability are important determinants of food choices, obesity and non-communicable diseases. As governments around the world consider policies to promote the consumption of healthier foods, data on the relative price and affordability of foods, with a particular focus on the difference between 'less healthy' and 'healthy' foods and diets, are urgently needed. This paper...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2012
L M Niëns E Van de Poel A Cameron M Ewen R Laing W B F Brouwer

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 and absolute level of income. The catastrophic method quantifies the proportion of the population whose...

2009
Francois Melese

This paper offers a comprehensive set of approaches for procurement officials to structure public investment decisions to improve acquisition outcomes. Called the “Economic Evaluation of Alternatives” (EEoA), these approaches address a significant weakness in most contemporary military “Analyses of Alternatives” (AoAs). While AoAs correctly focus on lifecycle costs and operational effectiveness...

2017
Mengqiu Cao Robin Hickman

This paper investigates the combined problem of high car dependence and housing affordability, in view of likely continued volatility in oil prices (and hence higher petrol and diesel prices), and rising house prices. Household budgets are likely to be stretched where there are high levels of car dependency and housing unaffordability – with little flexibility for rising costs in either or both...

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