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ARTIGO ARTICLE

Acesso a medicamentos no setor público: análise de usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde no Brasil
Access to medicines in the public sector: analysis of users of the Brazilian Unified National
Health System
Acceso a medicamentos en el sector público: análisis de usuarios del Sistema Único de
Salud en Brasil
Alexandra Crispim Boing 1
Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi 2
Antonio Fernando Boing 1
João Luiz Bastos 1
Karen Glazer Peres 3

Abstract
Programa de Pósgraduação em Saúde
Coletiva, Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina,
Florianópolis, Brasil.
2 Departamento de Medicina
Social, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brasil.
3 Australian Research Center for Population Oral Health,
The University of Adelaide,
Adelaide, Australia.
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Correspondência
A. C. Boing
Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva,
Universidade Federal de
Santa Catarina.
Campus Universitário
Trindade, Florianopolis, SC
88040-970, Brasil. [e-mail] Resumo

This study aimed to describe the prevalence of access to medicines in the Brazilian Unified
National Health System and associated factors among patients that received prescriptions in the public system. The study analyzed data from the
National Household Sample Survey (2008). The sample consisted of individuals with prescriptions written in the National Health System in the two weeks prior to the interview (n = 19,427).
The dependent variable was access to all the prescribed medicines inside the system itself. Slightly fewer than half of the sample with prescriptions received the medicines in the public health system; the proportions were higher in the South of Brazil, among black patients, those with less schooling and lower income, and those registered in the Family Health Strategy. When analyzing prescriptions written by the private sector, access to all the prescribed drugs was associated with higher income, higher education, and white skin color. The results