Judicial litigations and social welfare: access to medicines in two towns in the Santa Catarina State, Brazil = Judicialização e assistência social: formas de acesso a medicamentos em dois municípios no Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil

The growing number of lawsuits to obtain free medicines from the Brazilian Health System (SUS) is analyzed to characterize the supply of the requested drugs in two towns with different social and economic characteristics and different municipal pharmaceutical assistance organizations. Data for 2006...

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Main Authors: Silvana Nair Leite, Cristine Schaefer, Kelly Fittkau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Maringá 2012-10-01
Series:Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences
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Online Access:http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHealthSci/article/view/10084/pdf