The pharmacist in the Brazilian Primary Health Care

A Comparative Analysis Between 2014 and 2017

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5333970
AutoresRafaela Tavares Peixoto (0000-0002-9362-3770, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, autor correspondente), Mailín R Campos (0000-0002-7443-5977, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Mônica Rodrigues Campos (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Vera Lucia Luiza (0000-0001-6245-7522, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Luiz Villarinho Pereira Mendes (0000-0002-9027-0287, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
Ano2022
Volume46
Fascículo133
Páginas358-375
Data de publicação2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSaúde em Debate (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0103-1104 • E-ISSN: 2358-2898
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0103-1104202213308i
OpenAlexW4283165113
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas21

The pharmacist play a vital role in PHC. However, studies addressing how pharmacists influence the health care network are still scarce. We aim to verify to what extent the inclusion of pharmacists in PHC Units (UBS) in the country is associated with the expanded structural aspects of pharmacies and drug availability in Brazil. This cross-sectional, retrospective, and analytical study employed secondary data from cycles 2 (2014) and 3 (2017) of the external evaluation of the Improvement of Access and Quality of Primary Care Program (PMAQ-AB) and the National Register of Health Facilities (CNES) databases. The results showed an essential centralization in drug dispensing over PMAQ-AB cycles 2 and 3. In contrast, we identified an improvement in the structural aspects of the UBS pharmaceutical services and an increase in the mean drug availability and the total UBS with drug availability ≥ 80%. Such advances were even more significant in the presence of registered pharmacists at the UBS. We conclude by stating that the presence of pharmacists in the PHC of the Unified Health System (SUS) enhances drug availability and provides better structural conditions for PHC pharmacy services

Clinical pharmacy · Drug · Environmental health · Family medicine · Health care · Inclusion (mineral) · Pharmaceutical care · Pharmacist · Primary care · Primary health care · Quality (philosophy) · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes · Pharmacology · Pharmacy · Psychology · Public Health in Brazil