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Essencialidade e assistência farmacêutica: considerações sobre o acesso a medicamentos mediante ações judiciais no Brasil

2011; Pan American Health Organization; Volume: 29; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1020-49892011000200010

1680-5348

João Maurício Brambati Sant’Ana, Vera Lúcia Edais Pepe, Claudia Garcia Serpa Osorio‐de‐Castro, Míriam Ventura,

Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues

The guarantee of pharmaceutical care as a legal right established by the Brazilian federal constitution of 1988 led to an increase in lawsuits to put that right into practice. This phenomenon has been dubbed the judicialization of pharmaceutical care. Studies on this topic have revealed, on the one hand, deficiencies in the access of Unified Health Care (SUS) users to drugs included in Ministry of Health pharmaceutical care lists, and, on the other hand, limitations of the legal system to deal with the situation. The present article addresses these issues in the context of the conceptual framework that supports the Brazilian drug policy and pharmaceutical care policy, especially the notions of essential drugs and allocation of scarce resources.