scholarly journals Assessment Of Prices Of Essential Medicines For Chronic Diseases Prevalent In The Asia Pacific Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. A460
Author(s):  
K Undela
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region

Availability, Price, and Affordability of Selected Essential Medicines for Chronic Diseases in 11 Countries of the Asia Pacific Region: A Secondary Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 268-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haipeng Wang ◽  
Qiang Sun ◽  
Agnes Vitry ◽  
Tuan Anh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Action

Access to affordable essential medicines for noncommunicable, chronic diseases is critical in management of the diseases. This study aims to assess the availability, prices, and affordability of medicines for common chronic diseases in the Asia Pacific Region (APR). A secondary analysis of medicines price and availability data from the Health Action International’s (HAI) database was undertaken using the standardized WHO/HAI methodology. The median availability of any medicine in the public sector was 35.5% compared with 56.7% in the private sector. Countries paid 1.4 times the International Reference Price to procure lowest-priced generics (LPGs) and 9.1 times for innovator brands (IBs). Patients would have to spend 2.3 and 0.4 day’s wages to purchase one month’s treatment of a chronic disease for IBs and LPGs, respectively in the private sector. These findings highlight the need to increase availability, reduce prices, and improve affordability of the medicines.

scholarly journals Organisation of primary health care in the Asia-Pacific region: developing a prioritised research agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (Suppl 8) ◽  
pp. e001467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Palagyi ◽  
Rebecca Dodd ◽  
Stephen Jan ◽  
Devaki Nambiar ◽  
Rohina Joshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Primary Health

Health system planners in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) of the Asia-Pacific region seeking to reorient primary health care (PHC) systems to achieve universal health coverage may be hindered by lack of knowledge of what works in their setting. With limited resources for research available, it is important to identify evidence-based strategies for reorganising PHC delivery, determine where relevant evidence gaps exist and prioritise these for future study. This paper describes an approach for doing this using the best available evidence combined with consultation to establish evidence priorities. We first reviewed PHC organisational interventions in Asia-Pacific LMICs and ascertained evidence gaps. The largest gaps related to interventions to promote access to essential medicines, patient management tools, effective health promotion strategies and service planning and accountability. Evidence from Pacific Island countries was particularly scant. We then engaged an expert panel of 22 PHC stakeholders from seven Asia-Pacific LMICs in a Delphi exercise to identify priority questions for future research. Research priorities were: (1) identifying effective PHC service delivery models for chronic diseases; (2) devising sustainable models of disease integration; (3) optimising task shifting; (4) understanding barriers to care continuity; (5) projecting future PHC needs; and (6) designing appropriate PHC service packages. Notably, stakeholder-determined priorities reflected large, context-dependent system issues, while evidence gaps centred on discrete interventions. Future research on the organisation of PHC services in Asia-Pacific LMICs should incorporate codesign principles to engage researchers and national PHC system stakeholders, and innovative methods that build on existing evidence and account for system complexity.

Review of Counseling in the Asia-Pacific Region.

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-384
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region
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