Evidence-based process for decision-making in the analysis of legal demands for medicines in Brazil

• Main Authors: Tatiana Aragão Figueiredo (Author), Claudia Garcia Serpa Osorio- (Author), Vera Lúcia Edais Pepe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Legal actions have been playing a significant role as an alternative pathway to access to medicines in Brazil. These lawsuits demand medicines used in Primary Health Care as well as medicines that are still in clinical research and have not been market approved by the Brazilian National Agency for S...