Figure 2.
Themes and Sub-themes of Financing Strategies to Facilitate Access to High-Cost Anticancer Drugs. Basic pharmaceutical reimbursement and pricing policies included features of the basic reimbursement and pricing system in countries tailored to provide access to anticancer drugs to their population; Funding strategies specific to high-cost drugs included add-on strategies used specifically to provide access to high-cost drugs such as orphan or anticancer drugs when the basic pharmaceutical reimbursement and pricing policies were insufficient; Financial assistance for individual patients included add-on strategies intended to provide financial support for individual patients by either governmental or non-governmental organizations. Abbreviation: WHO, World Health Organization.