Availability, prices and affordability of essential medicines: A cross-sectional survey in Hanam province, Vietnam

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 11; p. e0260142
• Main Authors: Nguyen, Huong Thi Thanh, Dinh, Dai Xuan, Nguyen, Trung Duc, Nguyen, Van Minh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 18.11.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Availability; Computation; Consent; Consumer Behavior; Coronaviruses; Cost analysis; Costs and Cost Analysis; COVID-19; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data collection; Drug stores; Drugs, Essential - economics; Drugs, Generic - economics; Earth Sciences; Economics, Medical - statistics & numerical data; Economics, Medical - trends; Ethics; Evaluation; Generic drugs; Government; Health care facilities; Health care policy; Health Facilities; Health insurance; Health Services Accessibility - economics; Health Services Accessibility - trends; Hospitals; Humans; Mean; Median (statistics); Medical care, Cost of; Medical research; Medical supplies; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; People and Places; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmacists; Pharmacoeconomics; Physicians; Polls & surveys; Population; Prices; Prices and rates; Private Sector; Public health; Public Sector; Rural areas; Social Sciences; Statistical analysis; Surveys; Urban areas; Vietnam; Vietnam

To measure medicines' prices, availability, and affordability in Hanam, Vietnam. The standardized methodology developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Action International was used to survey 30 essential medicines (EMs) in 30 public health facilities and 35 private medicine o...