Lived experience of affordability as a barrier to prescription medicines: A longitudinal qualitative study
Exploring lived experience provides insights into the multiple ways that lack of affordability prevents access to medicines: directly, through interaction with other barriers to access including transport, by damaging trust and reducing acceptability of services, and by making participants less able to deal with mistakes made by health professionals.
Authors
- Pauline Norris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1656-871X)
- Lauralie Richard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2497-3857)
- Molly George (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9774-5612)
- Rosalina Richards
- Vanda Symon
- Shirley Keown
- Sandhaya Bhawan
Institutions
- Waterborne Environmental (United States) (US)
- Pharmac (NZ)
- University of Otago (NZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy
- Published
- 2025-01-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2025.100571
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.13
Funders
- Health Research Council of New Zealand