Farmácia Popular Program: changes in geographic accessibility of medicines during ten years of a medicine subsidy policy in Brazil

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice

José Miguel do Nascimento, Jr¹  Dennis Ross-Degnan¹  Vera Lucia Luiza¹  Marco Aurélio Pereira¹  Isabel Cristina Martins Emmerick¹ 

[1] Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215 USA

关键词: Government programs;    Brazil;    Essential medicines;    Access;    Co-payment;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40545-015-0030-x

学科分类：药理学

来源: BioMed Central

【 摘 要 】

Objectives

The Brazilian constitution guarantees the right to health, including access to medicines. In May 2004, Brazil’s government announced the “Farmácia Popular” Program (FPP) as a new mechanism to improve the Brazilian population’s access to medicines. Under FPP, a selected list of medicines is subsidized by the government and provided in public and private pharmacies.

The aim of this study is to describe the historical stages of the FPP and to identify associated changes in the geographical accessibility of medicines through the FPP over time.

【 授权许可】

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