Is quality affordable?
Journal Title: The Community Eye Health Journal - Year 2008, Vol 21, Issue 68
Abstract
The question “Is quality affordable?” is loaded with dynamite! Can a person who lives on less than US $1 per day afford a high-quality cataract operation? If the answer is ‘No’, then do we offer that person poor or low-quality services? Do people living in poverty have a ‘right’ to high-quality eye or health care? If the answer is ‘Yes’, then at what price and who should pay? Should we ignore quality and focus on affordability? Or should we provide high-quality services in the hope that someone else will pay? These are difficult questions, which policy makers, managers, and clinicians must face and try to answer.
Authors and Affiliations
Robert Lindfield, Allen Foster
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