Access to medicines in the Brazilian Unified Health System’s primary health care: assessment of a public policy-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Access to medicines in the Brazilian Unified Health System’s primary health care: assessment of a public policy

Published:2021-07 Issue:10 Volume:10 Page:869-879
ISSN:2042-6305
Container-title:Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Author:

Barbosa Mariana M¹^ORCID,Moreira Thais A²^ORCID,Nascimento Renata CRM³^ORCID,Nascimento Mariana MG¹^ORCID,Acurcio Francisco A¹^ORCID,Godman Brian⁴⁵⁶⁷^ORCID,Guerra Augusto A¹^ORCID,Alvares-Teodoro Juliana¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Pharmacy, Postgraduate Program in Medicines & Pharmaceutical Services, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

2. School of Medicine, Postgraduate Program in Public Health Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

3. School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil

4. Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0RE, UK

5. Health Economics Centre, University of Liverpool Management School, Liverpool, UK

6. Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, SE-141 86, Stockholm, Sweden

7. School of Pharmacy, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Garankuwa, Pretoria, South Africa

Abstract

In 2008, the Programa Rede Farmácia de Minas (RFM, literally translated: ‘Minas Gerais Pharmacy Network’ program) was created as a strategy to expand access to medicines. Aim: Measure access to medicines in public pharmacies through comparison between municipalities that joined or not the RFM. Materials & methods: Cross-sectional, evaluative study, gathering information from a representative sample of the municipalities in Minas Gerais between July 2014 and May 2015. The Poisson regression results were obtained by calculating the prevalence ratios. Results: Adequate access to medicines in Minas Gerais was 69.9%, being 75.8% in municipalities with and 69.2% without the RFM. The municipalities with the RFM showed statistically higher percentages in the Availability, Adequacy/Accommodation, and Acceptability dimensions. Conclusion: RFM appears an efficient strategy for promoting access to medicines.

Publisher

Future Medicine Ltd

Subject

Health Policy

Link

https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/cer-2021-0026

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