Pharmaceutical services in primary health care: interfederative agreement in the development of pharmaceutical policies in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS)

• Autor(a) principal: Karen Sarmento Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Noêmia Urruth Leão Tavares, José Miguel do Nascimento Júnior, Sotero Serrate Mengue, Juliana Álvares, Augusto Afonso Guerra Júnior, Francisco de Assis Acurcio, Orlando Mario Soeiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.11606/S1518-8787.201705100supl2ap; http://hdl.handle.net/1843/56544; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2218-6024; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6180-7527; https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3956-8037; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-8541; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0210-0721; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5256-0577; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5880-5261; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4492-9802
• topic: Pharmaceutical care; Política Nacional de Medicamentos (National Policy of Medicines); Unified Health System (SUS); Assistência farmacêutica; Sistema Único de Saúde (Brasil)

The Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) was established in 1990, in the institutional reorganization measures deriving from the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988, for implementing the Health Policy recommended in the constitutional text2. The implementation of a health system with such extent and comprehensiveness required promoting, preventive, and care policies in health and the institutionalization of new practices, arising from SUS’s principles and guidelines. In different countries, health systems present propositions of public policies, aimed at the population’s access to medications with proven quality, efficacy, and safety, besides the promotion of rational use of medicines, in systematic and constant interaction with the national policy8. In Brazil, the Política Nacional de Medicamentos (National Policy of Medicines)9, the Política Nacional de Assistência Farmacêutica (National Policy of Pharmaceutical Services)11, and the Política Nacional de Plantas Medicinais e Fitoterápicos (National Policy of Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapy)3, included as part of the Política Nacional de Saúde (National Health Policy), also present the main purpose of achieving these propositions.