Pharmaceutical policies: effects of cap and co‐payment on rational use of medicines

VL Luiza, LA Chaves, RM Silva… - Cochrane Database …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Growing expenditures on prescription medicines represent a major challenge
to many health systems. Cap and co‐payment policies are intended as an incentive to deter …

Applying a health system perspective to the evolving Farmácia Popular medicines access programme in Brazil

VL Luiza, LA Chaves, MR Campos, AD Bertoldi… - BMJ Global …, 2018 - gh.bmj.com
The Farmácia Popular Program (FPP) launched a subsidy system in Brazil, but in coexistence
with the ongoing regular governmental access to medicines (Unified Health System (SUS) …

Retrospective interrupted time series examining hypertension and diabetes medicines usage following changes in patient cost sharing in the 'Farmácia Popular' …

ICM Emmerick, MR Campos, VL Luiza, LA Chaves… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives ‘Farmácia Popular’ (FP) programme was launched in 2004, expanded in 2006
and changed the cost sharing for oral hypoglycaemic (OH) and antihypertensive (AH) …

Integration of primary care in the healthcare network: analysis of the components in the external evaluation of the PMAQ-AB

LA Chaves, AO Jorge, ML Cherchiglia… - Cadernos de Saúde …, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
Estudo transversal que avalia a integração entre a atenção básica ea rede assistencial do
Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), por meio do Modelo de Resposta Gradual da Teoria de …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of pharmaceutical services in Brazilian primary health care: a cross-sectional study

NC Pereira, VL Luiza, MR Campos, LA Chaves - BMC Family Practice, 2021 - Springer
Background In the Brazilian public health system, primary health care (PHC) is provided by
the municipalities and is considered the entry level of the Unified Health System (SUS). …

[PDF][PDF] Farmácia Popular Program: pharmaceutical market analysis of antihypertensive acting on the renin-angiotensin system medicines

RM Silva, GC Chaves, LA Chaves… - Ciência & Saúde …, 2017 - SciELO Public Health
This paper aims to analyse changes in the retail pharmaceutical market following policy
changes in the Farmácia Popular Program (FP), a medicines subsidy program in Brazil. The …

Evaluation of strategies that improve the thermal comfort and energy saving of a classroom of an institutional building in a tropical climate

LV de Abreu-Harbich, VLA Chaves… - Building and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The unsatisfactory thermal performance of buildings belonging to higher-education institutions
in Brazil causes discomfort in classrooms and affects student performance. It is thus …

[HTML][HTML] Public procurement of medicines: scoping review of the scientific literature in South America

CM Soares, B Nascimento, LA Chaves… - … of pharmaceutical policy …, 2019 - Springer
Background Access to medicines is essential for materializing access to health as a
fundamental human right. As such, it is included in the United Nations Sustainable Development …

Comparison of parasitological, immunological and molecular methods for evaluation of fecal samples of immunosuppressed rats experimentally infected with …

LA Chaves, ALR Goncalves, FM Paula, NM Silva… - Parasitology, 2015 - cambridge.org
Definitive diagnosis of strongyloidiasis in humans is typically achieved by detection of larvae
in fecal samples. However, limitations on sensitivity of parasitological methods emphasize …

Diagnosis of the pinworm Syphacia muris in the Wistar rat Rattus norvegicus

…, EFG Carvalho, MA Levenhagen, LA Chaves… - Journal of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
This study aimed to compare three qualitative parasitological methods for the diagnosis of
Syphacia muris infection in 30 Wistar rats (Rattus norvegicus) infected naturally. Methods of …