Health care, including access to medicines, is granted as a citizen's right by the Brazilian Constitution through a national health system called Unified Health System (SUS). The Pharmaceutical Care Programmes of SUS are, quite often, the only way a large part of the population has to obtain...

This work examines data from the Pesquisa Assistência Médico-Sanitária (AMS) collected in 1999, considering the expansion of the supply of health services, the relationships between the public and private sectors and the human resources and technology incorporated in the health...