Access to affordable medicines after health reform: evidence from two cross-sectional surveys in Shaanxi Province, western China.

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Limited access to essential medicines is a global problem. Improving availability and affordability of essential medicines is a key objective of the National Essential Medicine Policy (NEMP) in China. In its initial implementation in 2009, the NEMP targeted primary hospitals with policies designed to increase availability of essential medicines and reduce patients' economic burden from purchasing medicines. We assessed medicine availability and price during the early years of the health reform in Shaanxi Province in underdeveloped western China.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Lancet Glob Health

Title: The Lancet. Global health

ISSN (Electronic): 2214-109X

ISSN (Print): 2214-109X

Publication date (Electronic): Oct 2013

Volume: 1

Issue: 4

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[1 ] Department of Pharmacy Administration, School of Pharmacy, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: yufang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn.

[2 ] Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

[3 ] Department of Pharmacy Administration, School of Pharmacy, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

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Publisher Item ID: S2214-109X(13)70072-X

DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70072-X

PubMed ID: 25104348

SO-VID: 41228fac-4741-498a-b5b1-cf0e56407aa0

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