Accessible, Affordable Healthcare

Affordable and Accessible Hearing Healthcare Interventions in the United States: A Literature Review and Prospective Analysis

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Hub and spoke model: making rural healthcare in India affordable, available and accessible.

CONTEXT Quality health care should be within everyone's reach, especially in a developing country. While India has the largest private health sector in the world, only one-fifth of healthcare expenditure is publically financed; it is mostly an out-of-pocket expense. About 70% of Indians live in rural areas making about $3 per day, and a major portion of that goes towards food and shelter and, t...

Early intervention for hearing impairment: appropriate, accessible and affordable.

Before the onset of universal newborn hearing screening, children with hearing loss are not identified until they fail to meet important speech and language milestones at 2 years old and beyond. With the current widespread implementation of universal newborn hearing screening programmes, more infants with hearing loss can now be identified in the first few weeks of life and be fitted with ampli...

Pretenders to the throne of affordable healthcare?

treatment cost audits in medical institutes: neuroeconomics of affordable healthcare