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Cost-Effectiveness of Breast Cancer Control Strategies in Central America: The Cases of Costa Rica and Mexico Open

Laurens M. Niëns, Sten G. Zelle, Cristina Gutiérrez-Delgado, Gustavo Rivera Peña, Blanca Rosa Hidalgo Balarezo , et al. · 2014

This paper reports the most cost-effective policy options to support and improve breast cancer control in Costa Rica and Mexico. Total costs and effects of breast cancer interventions were estimated using the health care perspective and WH…

Affordability in Health Care: Operationalizations and Applications in Different Contexts Open

Laurens M. Niëns · 2014

__Abstract__ \n \nOver the last decades, total health expenditures have increased significantly (Meltzer, \n2001; Folland et al., 2004). Governments in low- and middle-income countries \n(LMICs) as well as in high-income countries face the…

Measuring the affordability of medicines: Importance and challenges Open

Laurens M. Niëns, Werner Brouwer · 2013

Costs, effects and cost‐effectiveness of breast cancer control in Ghana Open

Sten G. Zelle, Kofi Nyarko, William K. Bosu, Moses Aikins, Laurens M. Niëns , et al. · 2012

Objective Breast cancer control in Ghana is characterised by low awareness, late‐stage treatment and poor survival. In settings with severely constrained health resources, there is a need to spend money wisely. To achieve this and to guide…

Practical Measurement of Affordability: An Application to Medicines/ Mesure Pratique De L'abordabilite: Une Application Aux Medicaments/ Medicon Practica De la Asequibilidad: Aplicacion a Los Medicamentos Open

Laurens M. Niëns, Ellen Van de Poel, Alexandra Cameron, Margaret Ewen, Richard Laing , et al. · 2012

Introduction Affordability is not unequivocal concept; Bradley (1) calls it vague, and Whitehead,2 Milne3 and Komives et al. (4) deny that it has a clear basis in economic theory. The theory assumes that a household chooses the bundle of …

Problem solving for breast health care delivery in low and middle resource countries (LMCs): consensus statement from the Breast Health Global Initiative Open

Joe B. Harford, Isabel V. Otero, Benjamin O. Anderson, Eduardo Cazap, William J. Gradishar , et al. · 2011

International collaborations like the Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) can help low and middle income countries (LMCs) to establish or improve breast cancer control programs by providing evidence-based, resource-stratified guidelines…

Quantifying the Impoverishing Effects of Purchasing Medicines: A Cross-Country Comparison of the Affordability of Medicines in the Developing World Open

Laurens M. Niëns, Alexandra Cameron, Ellen Van de Poel, Margaret Ewen, Werner Brouwer , et al. · 2010

Comparing medicine prices to available income in LICs and MICs shows that medicine purchases by individuals in those countries could lead to the impoverishment of large numbers of people. Action is needed to improve medicine affordability,…

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