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0301/2025 - Specialized Component of Pharmaceutical Care : the state organization and access to medicines
Componente Especializado da Assistência Farmacêutica: a organização estadual e o acesso aos medicamentos

Author:

• Ana Liani Beisl Oliveira - Oliveira, ALB - <analiani18@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6413-5727

Co-author(s):

• Mônica Rodrigues Campos - Campos, MR - <monicarodriguescampos@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7443-5977
• Mareni Rocha Farias - Farias, MR - <marenif@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4319-9318
• Vera Lucia Luiza - Lucia-Luiza, V - <negritudesenior@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6245-7522


Abstract:

This study aimed to characterize the organization of the Specialized Components of Pharmaceutical Services (CEAF) in Brazil and to categorize the different strategies as centralized or decentralized, pointing out the limits, challenges, and potentialities for access to medicines. A retrospective quantitative study of CEAF drug dispensing data in 2023 was carried out in the 26 Brazilian states and the Federal District, with a special focus on drugs recommended for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Data were obtained mainly from the High-Cost Procedure Authorization system, (APAC). A set of indicators has been developed. Data from 210,640 users, residents of 5,086 (91%) Brazilian municipalities were analyzed. Dispensation was carried out in 189 municipalities (3.4%). Approximately half of the users of RA medications in the CEAF are in the southeast, then south and northeast, given that it follows the order of demographic density. The CEAF dispensation is essentially centralized, especially in the north and northeast. The divergences and incompleteness of databases is a problem that needs to be resolved to enhance their use to guide decision-making.

Keywords:

Specialized Component of Pharmaceutical Care, Access to Essential Medicines.

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Oliveira, ALB, Campos, MR, Farias, MR, Lucia-Luiza, V. Specialized Component of Pharmaceutical Care : the state organization and access to medicines. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/Aug). [Citado em 28/01/2026]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/specialized-component-of-pharmaceutical-care-the-state-organization-and-access-to-medicines/19777?id=19777



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