Use of health outcome and health service utilization indicators as an outcome of access to medicines in Brazil: perspectives from a literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To guarantee the right to health, the health system must also ensure access to medicines. Several financial arrangements to provide these technologies are implemented and range from the direct (either total or partial) to indirect payment by the patient, being necessary to evaluate its effect on access to medicines. However, to ensure access to medicines is not just about ensuring its availability, as this only materializes in its use. Thus, evaluation studies of interventions in access to medicines have been using indicators related to the health results and use of health services as its outcomes. Furthermore, as this relationship is not direct, it is important to critically assess the adequacy of these tools to measure this phenomenon and, additionally, the ability to

SUBMITTER: Arueira Chaves L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6902426 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature