This study also identified a number of areas of potentially unmet need amongst this highly vulnerable population including difficulty affording medication, difficulty in accessing services in rural areas, poor medication management, social isolation and mental health issues.
It is not a matter of whether your kids mind or not, but whether you have enough money to pay for a nanny". The 94% of women who earn less than £29,000 – and the nearly half who earn less than £10,000 – would most likely have difficulties affording childcare without a second breadwinner in the family.
This may result in difficulties affording the additional resources required to cope with illness [ 2], as well as adding further strain to the process of dealing with cancer.
Even with health insurance coverage, low-income parents identified difficulties affording care for their children due to the high cost of deductibles, co-payments, and/or medications.
Some respondents had difficulties affording the cumulative costs of attending a doctor to obtain a prescription then buying the medicine: "… We have great problems being able to afford 30 70 dollar doctor's fees even if you can claim it back.
While thousands of homes sit vacant, many low-income Baltimore residents have difficulty affording housing.
Are you a woman who has experienced difficulty affording necessary care?
Almost half of all New York City households with children have difficulty affording enough food.
MSF has difficulty affording the costs of vaccinating children in the emergency situations where it works.
I ask if they have difficulty affording their insulin and medications, and I let them know they aren't alone.
"It used to be that students had difficulty affording tuition and textbooks," she says, "but today, it's about the cost of housing.
