In 2016, the causal relationship between Zika virus infection in pregnant women and the occurrence of microcephaly in infants was confirmed. However, in the previous year, when an unexpected increase in the number of live births with microcephaly was observed in Brazil, this relationship was...

Violence against women is a problem of great magnitude and relevance in Brazil, which has death as its more extreme expression. This study aimed to estimate corrected female mortality rates due to assault and to describe the profile of these deaths in Brazil, in its macro-regions and Federative...

Infectious diseases of poverty disproportionately affect people living in poor and marginalized communities. Poverty creates conditions that favor the spread of communicable diseases and prevents the affected people from obtaining adequate access to prevention and care. The use of social...

A new and challenging scenario for drug analysis and registration has been gradually incorporated into the routine of the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitára - Anvisa) by the Brazilian pharmaceutical industry. This text calculates how long...

Access to medicines in Brazil can be studied using different analytical approaches. One of these approaches is the household spending on medicines, whose weight over the income of the Brazilian families is widely known. The study aims to describe the spending on medicines of the Brazilian...

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...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Medecins Sans Frontieres recently have proposed the term neglected diseases, referring to those that have a higher occurrence in the developing countries and most neglected, exclusive of developing countries. Leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, trachoma,...

Infectious diseases of poverty disproportionately affect people living in poor and marginalized communities. Poverty creates conditions that favor the spread of communicable diseases and prevents the affected people from obtaining adequate access to prevention and care. The use of social...

Violence against women is a problem of great magnitude and relevance in Brazil, which has death as its more extreme expression. This study aimed to estimate corrected female mortality rates due to assault and to describe the profile of these deaths in Brazil, in its macro-regions and Federative...

Access to medicines in Brazil can be studied using different analytical approaches. One of these approaches is the household spending on medicines, whose weight over the income of the Brazilian families is widely known. The study aims to describe the spending on medicines of the Brazilian...