Measuring medicine prices, availability, affordability and price components
- 2nd ed.
- Geneva World Health Organization and Health Action International 2008
- xiv, 293p.
Offers a standardised methodology for measuring medicine prices, availability, affordability, and price, thereby facilitating national and international comparisons and outlines the rationale behind monitoring medicine prices and availability, and explains how this activity can effectively be undertaken in resource-poor countries. Explores pre-survey planning and preparatory components such as training area supervisors, data collectors, and data entry personnel and covers the measurement of price components and international comparisons.
Medicine|Health Policy|Medicine price control|Management sciences for health