The Lancet. Global health
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The Lancet. Global health · Oct 2013
Access to affordable medicines after health reform: evidence from two cross-sectional surveys in Shaanxi Province, western China.
Limited access to essential medicines is a global problem. Improving availability and affordability of essential medicines is a key objective of the National Essential Medicine Policy (NEMP) in China. In its initial implementation in 2009, the NEMP targeted primary hospitals with policies designed to increase availability of essential medicines and reduce patients' economic burden from purchasing medicines. We assessed medicine availability and price during the early years of the health reform in Shaanxi Province in underdeveloped western China. ⋯ The National Natural Science Fund (71103141/G0308), the China Medical Board Faculty Development Awards, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2011jdhz62), the Shaanxi Provincial Social Science Fund (10E066), and the Harvard Medical School Pharmaceutical Policy Research Fellowship.
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The Lancet. Global health · Aug 2013
Review Meta AnalysisEffect of daily iron supplementation on health in children aged 4-23 months: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
About 47% of preschool children worldwide are anaemic. Daily oral iron supplementation is a commonly recommended intervention for treatment and prevention of anaemia, but the efficacy and safety of iron supplementation programmes is debated. Thus, we systematically reviewed the evidence for benefit and safety of daily iron supplementation in children aged 4-23 months. ⋯ Victoria Fellowship (Government of Victoria, Australia); CRB Blackburn Scholarship (Royal Australasian College of Physicans); Overseas Research Experience Scholarship, University of Melbourne.