Hypertension and diabetes treatment affordability and government expenditures following changes in patient cost sharing in the "Farmácia popular" program in Brazil: an interrupted time series study

• Main Authors: Isabel Cristina Martins Emmerick (Author), Mônica Rodrigues Campos (Author), Rondineli Mendes da Silva (Author), Luisa Arueira Chaves (Author), Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi (Author), Dennis Ross-Degnan (Author), Vera Lucia Luiza (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Increasing medicines availability and affordability is a key goal of Brazilian health policies. "Farmácia Popular" (FP) Program is one of the government's key strategies to achieve this goal. Under FP, antihypertension (HTN) and antiglycemic (DM) medicines have be...