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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Silva, Rondineli Mendes da
• Chaves, Gabriela Costa
• Chaves, Luisa Arueira
• Campos, Mônica Rodrigues
• Luiza, Vera Lucia
• Bertoldi, Andréa Dâmaso
• Ross-Degnan, Dennis
• Emmerick, Isabel Cristina Martins

Titel

Farmácia Popular Program: pharmaceutical market analysis of antihypertensive acting on the renin-angiotensin system medicines

Ist Teil von

• Ciência & saude coletiva, 2017-08, Vol.22 (8), p.2501-2512

Ort / Verlag

Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper aims to analyse changes in the retail pharmaceutical market following policy changes in the Farmácia Popular Program (FP), a medicines subsidy program in Brazil. The retrospective longitudinal analyses focus on therapeutic class of agents acting on the renin-angiotensin system. Data obtained from QuintilesIMS (formerly IMS Health) included private retail pharmacy sales volume (pharmaceutical units) and sales values from 2002 to 2013. Analyses evaluated changes in market share following key FP policy changes. The therapeutic class was selected due to its relevance to hypertension treatment. Market share was analysed by therapeutic sub-classes and by individual company. Losartan as a single product accounted for the highest market share among angiotensin II antagonists. National companies had higher sales volume during the study period, while multinational companies had higher sales value. Changes in pharmaceutical market share coincided with the inclusion of specific products in the list of medicines covered by FP and with increases in or exemption from patient copayment.