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Affordability, availability and acceptability barriers to health care for the chronically ill: Longitudinal case studies from South Africa

Goudge, Jane, Gilson, Lucy, Russell, Steven, Gumede, Tebogo, Mills, Anne·2009·BMC Health Services Research
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-9-75PMC PMC2694171
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  • Mainz (2003) and Santalahti et al. (2020) highlighted issues such as nonavailability of medicine, lack of basic diagnostic facilities, and gross differentiation among providers in care for similar illnesses.

    “These findings align with studies conducted by Mainz (2003)[41] and Santalahti et al. (2020),[38] who highlighted issues such as nonavailability of medicine, lack of basic diagnostic facilities, and gross differentiation among providers in care for similar illnesses.[42]”

    From Identifying the accessibility barriers for chronic disease management in health care delivery system amongst the Urban Poor of Kolkata, West Bengal, India (2025) · cites this paper as [42]

    The Results section reports repeated drug stock-outs, and the Discussion describes a lack of functional diagnostic equipment. The Results also give one example of differing diagnoses by a clinic and hospital, but do not establish gross differences in care among providers for similar illnesses. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Goudge, J., Gilson, L., Russell, S., Gumede, T., & Mills, A.
Venue
BMC Health Services Research
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2009-05-09
Volume
9
Issue
1
ISSN
1472-6963
DOI
10.1186/1472-6963-9-75
PMC
PMC2694171
Cited by
165
References
1
Language
en
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creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 (tdm)

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