Dificuldades de acesso aos serviços farmacêuticos pelos idosos
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2014
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The aim of this study was to analyze the access to
pharmaceutical services by the elderly provided by the
Unified Health System in the municipality of Ribeirão
Preto – SP, Brazil, as well as their knowledge about the
correct form of using the prescribed medication. A cross sectional study was performed with elderly patients aged
60 years and older in the moment that they withdrawal
their medications at a public pharmacy in the municipality
of Ribeirão Preto – SP. A standardized form was used
for data collection performed between November 2008
and May 2009. We interviewed 1000 elderly, of which less
than half (46.8%) acquired all the medications contained
in the prescription through the Unified Health System.
In addition, 31.3% of the interviewees did not acquired
the prescribed medication by a lack of at least one
medication in the standardized list of the municipality.
More than 87.4% of the elderly claimed they did not
receive guidance from the pharmacist in the moment of
drug dispensing, 37.1% reported a lack of knowledge of the correct dosage form of the medications used and
62,2% of the elderly interviewed stopped using the
prescribed medication once during the treatment period.
It is noteworthy that 15.8% of the respondents have also
private health insurance. Access barriers to prescribed
medication and the lack of knowledge about the dosage
highlight deficiencies with respect to pharmaceutical
services offered by the Unified Health System of Ribeirão
Preto – SP
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Idoso, Medicamentos essenciais, Sistema Único de Saúde, Assistência farmacêutica, Qualidade, Acesso e avaliação da assistência à saúde, Aged, Access and evaluation, Drugs, Health care quality, Unified Health System, Pharmaceutical services, Essential
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BALDONI, André de Oliveira et al. Dificuldades de acesso aos serviços farmacêuticos pelos idosos. Revista de Ciências Farmacêuticas Básica e Aplicada, Araraquara, v. 35, n. 4, p. 615-621, 2014.