scholarly journals Access to medicines by patients of the primary health care in the Brazilian Unified Health System

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 20s ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Álvares ◽  
Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior ◽  
Vânia Eloisa de Araújo ◽  
Alessandra Maciel Almeida ◽  
Carolina Zampirolli Dias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Access To Medicines ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Good For

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the access to medicines in primary health care of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), from the patients’ perspective. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study that used data from the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos – Services, 2015 (PNAUM – National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines), conducted by interviews with 8,591 patients in cities of the five regions of Brazil. Evaluation of access to medicines used concepts proposed by Penshansky and Thomas (1981), according to the dimensions: availability, accessibility, accommodation, acceptability, and affordability. Each dimension was evaluated by its own indicators. RESULTS: For the “availability” dimension, 59.8% of patients reported having full access to medicines, without significant difference between regions. For “accessibility,” 60% of patients declared that the basic health unit (UBS) was not far from their house, 83% said it was very easy/easy to get to the UBS, and most patients reported that they go walking (64.5%). For “accommodation,” UBS was evaluated as very good/good for the items “comfort” (74.2%) and “cleanliness” (90.9%), and 70.8% of patients reported that they do not wait to receive their medicines, although the average waiting time was 32.9 minutes. For “acceptability,” 93.1% of patients reported to be served with respect and courtesy by the staff of the dispensing units and 90.5% declared that the units’ service was very good/good. For “affordability,” 13% of patients reported not being able to buy something important to cover expenses with health problems, and 41.8% of participants pointed out the expense with medicines. CONCLUSIONS: Results show 70%–90% compliance, which is compatible with developed countries. However, access to medicines remains a challenge, because it is still heavily compromised by the low availability of essential medicines in public health units, showing that it does not occur universally, equally, and decisively to the population

scholarly journals Availability of essential medicines in primary health care of the Brazilian Unified Health System

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (suppl.2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Cristina Rezende Macedo do Nascimento ◽  
Juliana Álvares ◽  
Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior ◽  
Isabel Cristina Gomes ◽  
Ediná Alves Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Congenital Syphilis ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Primary Health

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the availability of tracer medicines in pharmaceutical services in primary health care of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). METHODS: This is a cross-sectional and evaluative study, part of the Pesquisa Nacional Sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos – Serviços, 2015 (PNAUM – National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines – Services, 2015). To analyze the availability of medicines, we verified 50 items selected from the Relação Nacional de Medicamentos Essenciais (Rename – National List of Essential Medicines) of 2012. Observation scripts were applied to medicine dispensing services in the primary health care. Interviews were carried out with patients, health care professionals, and public managers, using semi-structured questionnaires. The availability index was presented as the percentage of health units where the medicines were available. For statistical analysis, absolute, relative, and mean frequencies were presented (with 95% confidence intervals). The comparison of groups was carried out by Pearson Chi-square tests or variance analysis, when needed. RESULTS: One thousand, one hundred, and seventy-five observation scripts were filled in a national representative sample composed by 273 cities. Statistically significant differences were observed regarding the type of unit, infrastructure, and presence of a pharmacist between regions of Brazil. The average availability of tracer medicines in primary health care was 52.9%, with differences between regions and sampling strata. This index increased to 62.5% when phytotherapic medicines were excluded. We found limited availability of medicines for treatment of chronic and epidemiological diseases, such as tuberculosis and congenital syphilis. CONCLUSIONS: The low availability of essential medicines purchased centrally by the Brazilian Ministry of Health indicates deficiencies in supply chain management. The different views on the availability of tracer medicines in SUS confirm the general availability verified in this study. Among patients, about 60% said they obtain medicines in SUS units, data consistent with the lack of medicines reported by medicine dispensers and in line with physicians’ evaluations

scholarly journals Management of pharmaceutical services in the Brazilian primary health care

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (suppl.2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Farias Gerlack ◽  
Margô Gomes de Oliveira Karnikowski ◽  
Camila Alves Areda ◽  
Dayani Galato ◽  
Aline Gomes de Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Pharmaceutical Services ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Health Board ◽  
Complex Samples ◽  
Financial Autonomy ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Primary Health

OBJECTIVE: To identify limiting factors in the management of pharmaceutical services in the primary health care provided by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). METHODS: This study was based on the data from the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos no Brasil (PNAUM – National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines), and it was conducted by interviews with professionals responsible for pharmaceutical services in Brazilian cities, in 2015. To identify the management limiting factors, we considered the organizational, operational, and sustainability indicators of the management. For the analyses, we included the weights and structure of analysis plan for complex samples. The results were expressed by frequencies and measures of central tendency with 95% confidence interval, considering the Brazilian geographic regions. RESULTS: We identified the following limiting factors: lack of pharmaceutical services in the Municipal Health Secretariat organization chart (24%) and in the health plan (18%); lack of participation of managers in the Health Board and the absence of reference to this topic in the agenda of meetings (58.4%); lack of financial autonomy (61.5%) and lack of knowledge on the available values (81.7%); lack of adoption of operational procedures (about 50%) for selection, scheduling, and acquisition; and the fact that most professionals evaluate the organization of pharmaceutical services as good and great (58.8%), despite the worrisome indicators. CONCLUSIONS: Pharmaceutical services management is currently supported by a legal and political framework that should guide and contribute to improve the pharmaceutical services in the Brazilian Unified Health System primary health care. However, there is a mismatch between the goals established by these guidelines and what is actually happening

Resolution And Continuity Of Primary Health Care: Reference And Counter-Reference In The Sus (Unified Health System)

2017 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Beatriz Rodrigues Criscuolo ◽  
Duane Ferreira Melo ◽  
Selma Maria da Fonseca Viegas
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals Availability of dental treatment is associated with satisfaction derived from Primary Health Care Services accessed by elderly

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 344-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Blaya MARTINS ◽  
Creta SEIBT ◽  
Matheus NEVES ◽  
Juliana Balbinot HILGERT ◽  
Fernando Neves HUGO
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Dental Treatment ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Primary Health

Abstract Objective This research evaluated whether having dental treatment available in the primary health care centers of the Brazilian Unified Health System was associated with greater satisfaction with the services accessed. The offering of dental care within the health service that elders usually access may improve their satisfaction with the services as a whole. Material and method In this cross-sectional study, 401 elders living in the districts of Lomba do Pinheiro and Partenon in Porto Alegre, Brazil were interviewed. Elders were selected using a cluster sampling design process from census tract drawings. Result Poisson Regression revealed that age and dental treatment supply were associated with outcome, and age, number of teeth, and the presence of dental treatment were associated with a higher prevalence of satisfaction with health services. Conclusion These results provide new contributions for health system qualification because this study demonstrated the importance of having dental treatment available to improve the satisfaction of older people with the Primary Health Care (PHC) services accessed.

scholarly journals Pharmaceutical services in primary health care: interfederative agreement in the development of pharmaceutical policies in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS)

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (suppl.2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Sarmento Costa ◽  
Noêmia Urruth Leão Tavares ◽  
José Miguel Do Nascimento Júnior ◽  
Sotero Serrate Mengue ◽  
Juliana Álvares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Pharmaceutical Services ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Pharmaceutical Policies ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals De Médico de Família a Preceptor de Estudantes no Sistema Único de Saúde: Relato de Experiência

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Almeida de Oliveira ◽  
Eder Viana de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Health Unit ◽  
Typical Structure ◽  
Clinical Method ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Primary Health

Abstract: Introduction: This article reports the experience of a physician, specialist in Family and Community Medicine, who works in a Basic Health Unit in the southern region of the city of São Paulo, in the Primary Health Care of the Unified Health System, when he became a Preceptor of Medical students at Universidade São Caetano do Sul. Method: The students learned about the typical structure of a Basic Health Unit. They learned how to acquire the medical history during anamnesis, under supervision, and the physical examination, as they acquired the necessary skills. They also learned how to request complementary examinations. With this training, they learned how to apply the clinical method during practice. The students also learned the competence to apply the clinical method in uncontrolled environments through the home visit, which also made it possible to know the reality of the patient in loco. The follow-up of families and the index cases for a few years gave the students the opportunity to experience the different care cycles of the Family Health Strategy, including the question of death, which started in the socio-family context. They also participated and carried out assistance and knowledge transmission groups for the community, in which students were able to train communication and adaptation at the population level. They met and participated in the team meetings, which allowed showing the weekly planning of activities, the interdisciplinary discussion of more complex cases and the created strategies. Results: The promising results of the Active Methodologies based on student autonomy, in relation to the learning process, are applied to the teaching of Medicine in clinical practice environments, since the contact with reality improves learning, challenges the students to research and reflect with autonomy to think about what they must do with the established learning goals and teaches them to use previous experiences to interrelate new knowledge with previous information through Evidence-Based Medicine and reflect on medical practice. Conclusion: Comments are also made on the National Curricular Guidelines, which request the inclusion of the medical student within the scope of the Unified Health System, aimed mainly at Primary Health Care learning.

scholarly journals The burden of preventable hospitalizations before and after implementation of the health transformation plan in a hospital in west of Iran

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bakhtiar Piroozi ◽  
Mohammad Amerzadeh ◽  
Hossein Safari ◽  
Amjad Mohamadi-Bolbanabad ◽  
Abdorrahim Afkhamzadeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Preventable Hospitalizations ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Bed Days

Abstract Background: Increased number of preventable hospitalizations (PHs) for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) represents less efficiency and low access to outpatient and primary health care, leading to waste of health system resources. Aim: The purpose of this study is to assess the quality of outpatient and primary health care using the rate of PHs for ACSCs and to estimate the economic burden of ASCS before and after the implementation of the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran. Methods: This research was a before–after quasi-experimental study. The study population included all patients hospitalized in the largest general hospital of Kurdistan province with five diseases such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2014 (before the implementation of the HTP) and 2015 (after the implementation of the HTP). Data were analyzed by SPSS v.20 using Chi-square test. Findings: Total number of hospitalizations before and after the implementation of the HTP was 1501 and 1405, respectively. Moreover, the proportion of PHs in all types of the hospital admissions before and after the implementation of the HTP was 47% and 49%, respectively. There was no statistically significant difference between the number of PHs before and after the HTP. In total, PHs imposed 885 798 US$ and 9920 bed-days on health system before and after the implementation of the HTP. Conclusion: Despite the previous expectations of policy makers for improving quality, efficiency, and access to primary health care through implementation of the HTP, proportion of PHs is considerable and it imposes a lot of costs and bed-days on the health system both before and after the HTP.

scholarly journals Teledentistry and the Unified Health System: An Important Tool for the Resumption of Primary Health Care in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Campos de Almeida Carrer ◽  
Bruno Fernandes Matuck ◽  
Edson Hilan Gomes de Lucena ◽  
Fábio Carneiro Martins ◽  
Gilberto Alfredo Pucca Junior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals A interface entre a atenção primária à saúde e práticas integrativas e complementares no sistema único de saúde: formas de promover as práticas na APS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Lucas Gaspar Ribeiro ◽  
Daiane Marcondes
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Politica Publica ◽  
Family Health Strategy ◽  
The Individual

Um marco para a saúde no Brasil foi a implantação do Programa Saúde da Família (PSF) em 1994, com a reorientação das práticas assistenciais pelos princípios doutrinários e organizacionais do Sistema Único de Saúde. Esse sistema também oferta as práticas integrativas e complementares, abordando o indivíduo na sua multidimensionalidade, estimulando os mecanismos naturais de cura. Elas foram inseridas como política pública em 2006, no mesmo ano que o PSF foi modificado para estratégia. Ambas possuem relevantes afinidades e pontos que fortalecem o cuidado. O objetivo desse artigo é apresentar essa aproximação teórico-prática através de uma revisão narrativa, encontrando diversas premissas e ferramentas de cuidado compartilhados pela abordagem da Atenção Primária à Saúde (APS) e pelas práticas integrativas e complementares, além das práticas contribuindo para a desmedicalização, acesso e resolutividade da APS com o trabalho interprofissional, individualmente e coletivamente.       Palavras-chave: atenção primária à saúde, práticas integrativas e complementares, estratégia saúde da família, políticas públicas em saúde, sistema único de saúde.   Abstract A milestone for health in Brazil was the implementation of the Programa Saúde da Família (PSF) in 1994, with the reorientation of care practices based on doctrinal and organizational principles of the Unified Health System. This system also offers integrative and complementary practices, addressing the individual in its multidimensionality, stimulating the natural healing mechanisms. They were inserted as public policy in 2006, at the same year that the PSF was changed to strategy. Both contain affinities and points that strengthen care. The objective of the article is to present this theoretical-practical approach of a narrative review, finding several premisse and tools of care shared by the approach of Primary Health Care (PHC) and by integrative and complementary practices, in addition to the practices contributing to demedicalization, access and resolution of PHC with interprofessional work, individually and collective Keywords: primary health care, integrative and complementary practices, family health strategy, public health policy, unified health system.

scholarly journals Use of medicines by patients of the primary health care of the Brazilian Unified Health System

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 18s ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarisse Melo Franco Neves Costa ◽  
Micheline Rosa Silveira ◽  
Francisco de Assis Acurcio ◽  
Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior ◽  
Ione Aquemi Guibu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Continuous Variables ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Primary Health

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the use of medicines by patients of the primary health care of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). METHODS: This is a cross-sectional, exploratory, and descriptive study, part of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos – Serviços, 2015 (PNAUM – National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines – Services, 2015). Interviews were carried out with patients present in the services by semi-structured questionnaires. Sociodemographic, clinical, and use of medicines variables were assessed and the use of medicines in the 30 days prior to the interview was also verified. The population was stratified into three age groups: 18 to 44, 45 to 64, and 65 years or more. The differences between the age groups were verified using the Student’s t-test for continuous variables and chi-square test for the categorical ones. The complex samples analysis plan was employed. The medicines were classified according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System. RESULTS: Of the 8,803 patients interviewed, 6,511 (76.2%) reported to have used medicines in the 30 days prior to the interview. On average, each patient used 2.32 medicines, without difference between the sexes. Among medicine users, 18.2% were aged 65 years or more. Compared to the other age groups, older adults presented more comorbidities, used more medicines, and self-reported worse health conditions. They were also less educated, reported worse economic situation, and lived alone. The medicines that were mostly used were “other analgesics and antipyretics” (3rd ATC level) and Losartan (5th ATC level). CONCLUSIONS: Most medicine users had lower education level and presented comorbidities. The most used medicines were the antihypertensive ones. Self-medication was higher among young people. Most patients reported to use generic medicines. The average number of medicines and the prevalence of use increased with age. Due to the characteristics observed and the difficulties in the use of medicines, older adults are in a situation of greater vulnerability

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