Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorBoing, Alexandra Crispim
dc.contributor.authorBertoldi, Andrea Damaso
dc.contributor.authorPeres, Karen Glazer
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-14T04:54:49Z
dc.date.available2022-03-14T04:54:49Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.issn0034-8910en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1590/S0034-89102011005000054en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/413191
dc.description.abstractObjective: To describe socioeconomic inequalities regarding the use, expenditures and the income committed to the purchase of medicines. Methods: A cross-sectional population-based study was carried out with 1,720 adults living in the urban area of Florianópolis, Southern Brazil, in 2009. Cluster sampling was adopted and census tracts were the primary sampling units. Use of medicines and the expenditures incurred in their purchase in the past 30 days were investigated through interviews. Use, expenditures and the income committed concerning medicines were analyzed according to per capita family income, self-reported skin color, age and sex, adjusting for the complex sample. Results: The prevalence of medicine use was 76.5% (95%CI: 73.8; 79.3), higher among women and in older individuals. The mean expenditure on medicine was R$ 46.70, with higher values among women, whites, older individuals and among richer people. While 3.1% of the richest committed more than 15% of their income to purchasing medicine, that figure reached 9.6% in the poorest group. The proportion of people that had to buy medicines after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain them in the public health system was higher among the poor (11.0%), women (10.2%) and the elderly (11.1%). A large part of the adults bought medicines contained in the National List of Essential Medicines (19.9%) or in the Municipal List of Essential Medicines (28.6%), with significant differences according to gender, age and income. Conclusions: There is socioeconomic, age and gender inequality in the income committed to the purchase of medicines, with worse conditions for the poor, older individuals and women.en_US
dc.languagePortugueseen_US
dc.publisherRevista de Saúde Públicaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom897en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto905en_US
dc.relation.ispartofissue5en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalRevista de Saúde Públicaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume45en_US
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicineen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPublic, Environmental & Occupational Healthen_US
dc.subject.keywordsIncomeen_US
dc.subject.keywordsHealth Expendituresen_US
dc.titleSocioeconomic inequalities in expenditures and income committed to the purchase of medicines in Southern Brazilen_US
dc.title.alternativeDesigualdades socioeconômicas nos gastos e comprometimento da renda com medicamentos no Sul do Brasilen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBoing, AC; Bertoldi, AD; Peres, KG, Socioeconomic inequalities in expenditures and income committed to the purchase of medicines in Southern Brazil, Revista de Saúde Pública, 2011, 45 (5), pp. 897-905en_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2011-05-04
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en_US
dc.date.updated2022-03-14T04:19:42Z
dc.description.versionVersion of Record (VoR)en_US
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2012. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.en_US
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorGlazer De Anselmo Peres, Karen


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

  • Journal articles
    Contains articles published by Griffith authors in scholarly journals.

Show simple item record