TY - JOUR
T1 - Access to medicines in the Brazilian Unified Health System's primary health care
T2 - Assessment of a public policy
AU - Barbosa, Mariana M.
AU - Moreira, Thais A.
AU - Nascimento, Renata C.R.M.
AU - Nascimento, Mariana M.G.
AU - Acurcio, Francisco A.
AU - Godman, Brian
AU - Guerra, Augusto A.
AU - Alvares-Teodoro, Juliana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Future Medicine Ltd.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Rede Farmácia de Minas
KW - access to medicines
KW - health services accessibility
KW - infrastructure
KW - pharmaceutical services
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U2 - 10.2217/cer-2021-0026
DO - 10.2217/cer-2021-0026
M3 - Article
C2 - 34032143
AN - SCOPUS:85108404033
SN - 2042-6305
VL - 10
SP - 869
EP - 879
JO - Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
JF - Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
IS - 10
ER -
