A national survey on availability, price and affordability of selected essential medicines for non communicable diseases in Sri Lanka

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dabare, Panthihage Ruvini L ^a   Wanigatunge, Chandanie A ^a   Beneragama, Bvs Hemantha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SRI JAYEWARDENEPURA   (Sri Lanka)

^b Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Affordability; Availability; Essential medicines; Non communicable diseases; Price

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL DRUG;

ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SRI LANKA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DRUGS, ESSENTIAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84908290244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-817     Document Type: Article

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