The phrase "affordability of alternative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the cost-effectiveness or financial accessibility of alternative options or solutions.
Example: "The affordability of alternative energy sources is crucial for promoting sustainable practices in our communities."
Alternatives: "cost-effectiveness of alternatives" or "financial accessibility of alternatives".
Looming carbon taxes ("hopefully, in the not-too-distant future"), coupled with the increasing affordability of alternative energy, will mean that coal and oil from tar sands run the "very substantial risk of being stranded assets".
Bodeker et al highlight the fact that there is a general lack of data addressing levels of access and affordability of alternative health care and that many of these services are paid for out-of-pocket [ 21].
Other studies, which investigated the impact of doctors, strike on different socio-economic strata of Israeli society, showed that patients from lower socio-economic groups coped less effectively with strikes and complained of a higher impact on their health as opposed to patients from higher socio-economic strata, perhaps because of affordability of alternative healthcare services.
In 1994 the Health Ministry requested technical support from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank to conduct a review of the existing treatment policies, as well as to examine the efficiency and affordability of possible alternatives.
For example, since poverty contributes to low awareness of health risks, food insecurity, and restricted choice (21), regulations targeting price and content of foods and beverages are less meaningful without greater affordability of healthy alternatives.
Annual sales data from nine European countries were extracted from the IMS sales database and analyzed to determine whether trends in use of these treatment options were attributed to campaigns and/or availability and affordability of safer alternatives on the market.
The main disincentives to participation relate to affordability, the accessibility of alternative avenues of care such as primary care specialists or pharmacists in the district town, and the limited package of services which is viewed as being poor value for money (Sloggett 2002).
For fitting the economic evaluation study in a practical context, affordability of the intervention alternatives should be discussed.
Mitigation of such adverse food insecurity effects could include measures such as increasing the affordability of healthier oil alternatives.
With the price of palm oil relatively cheap, customer affordability makes it more difficult to build a case for use of alternative oils with improved fatty acid profiles.
This involves considering the cost-effectiveness of alternative interventions, the opportunity costs of investing in one intervention versus another, the affordability of the interventions, and the feasibility of applying a set of recommendations in different settings [ 7]." The GWG also recognizes that "WHO takes a global perspective in addressing the needs of (192) member states.
