Open AccessHousehold Expenditures for Medicines and the Role of Free Medicines in the Brazilian Public Health System
Author(s) -
Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi,
Aluísio J D Barros,
Aline Lins Camargo,
Pedro Curi Hallal,
Sotiris Vandoros,
Anita K. Wagner,
Dennis RossDegnan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2009.175844
Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , access to medicines , public health , environmental health , value (mathematics) , demography , population , nursing , machine learning , sociology , computer science
We sought to investigate, across different socioeconomic groups, the proportion of household medicine expenses that were paid by households and the proportion paid by the Brazilian national health system.