From: Legal access to medications: a threat to Brazil’s public health system?
Variable | n | Prevalence % (IC 95%) |
---|---|---|
Responsibility to care of lawsuit (n = 56.345) | ||
State of São Paulo | 34,952 | 62,0 (61,6–62,4) |
State shared | 21,207 | 37.6 (37,2–38,0) |
Other | 186 | 0,3 (0,2–0,3) |
Categories of the items claimed (n = 148,236) | ||
Medications | 91,931 | 62.0 (61,7–62,2) |
Medical and hospital supplies | 40,121 | 27.0 (26,8–27,2) |
Nutritional products | 8296 | 5,5 (5,4–5,7) |
Medical and hospital procedures | 6857 | 4,6 (4,5–4,7) |
Other items | 1031 | 0,6 (0,6–0,7) |
Identify of the person who filed the lawsuit (n = 56,345) | ||
Lawyer | 36,170 | 64.2 (63,7–64,5) |
Public defender | 7789 | 13.8 (13,5–14,1) |
Prosecutor | 5132 | 9.1 (8,8–9,3) |
Uninformed | 7254 | 12.8 (12,5–13,1) |
Type of lawsuit (n = 56,345) | ||
Normal proceeding | 34,649 | 61.4 (61,0–61,8) |
Injunction | 14,783 | 26.2 (25,8–26,6) |
Civil action | 4786 | 8,4 (8,2–8,7) |
Other | 2127 | 3,7 (3,3–3,9) |
Category of the prescriber (n = 56,345) | ||
Medical | 55,697 | 98,8 (98,7–98,9) |
Otherwise | 548 | 1,1 (1,0–1,2) |
Type of service that the medical prescription was drawn up (n = 56,345) | ||
Private clinic | 26,957 | 47,8 (47,4–48,2) |
PHCU | 10,673 | 18,9 (18,6–19,2) |
Teaching hospital | 7124 | 12.7 (12,3–12,9) |
General hospital | 4334 | 7.7 (7,6–7,7) |
Specialized clinic/outpatient clinic/Outpatient clinic uninformed/Polyclinic | 2378 | 4,2 (4,0–4,3) |
Unspecified hospital | 646 | 1.1 (1,0–1,2) |
Specialist hospital | 538 | 1.0 (0,8–1,0) |
Uninformed | 3695 | 6,5 (6,3–6,7) |
Item claimed of medication included of components of the PA program (n = 91.931) | ||
Basic | 15,265 | 16,6 (16,3–16,8) |
Specialized | 11,104 | 12,0 (11,8–12,2) |
Strategic | 346 | 0,3 (0,3–0,4) |
No one | 65,216 | 70,9 (70,6–71,2) |