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0303/2025 - The pharmaceutical workforce in the SUS: developments and warnings over the last decade (2014-2023)
A força de trabalho farmacêutico no SUS: evoluções e alertas sobre a última década (2014-2023)

Author:

• Marselle Nobre de Carvalho - Carvalho, MN - <marsellecarvalho@uel.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7338-5448

Co-author(s):

• Bruna Ruzza Monteguti - Monteguti, BR - <bruna_rm@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2382-5182
• Emília Baierle Faraco - Faraco, EB - <emiliabaierle@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9388-353X
• Silvana Nair Leite - Leite, SN - <silvana.nair@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5258-9684


Abstract:

The pharmaceutical workforce in the Unified Health System is responsible for the actions that materialize the National Pharmaceutical Policy from management to care. This study sets out to analyze the dynamics of the pharmaceutical workforce in the SUS over the last 10 years, starting from 2013, a period in which there was rapid growth. Data recorded in the CNES and IBGE are analyzed, presented in terms of growth rates and population rates. Between 2014 and 2023, the total pharmacist workforce in the services that serve the SUS in Brazil grew by 36%, and in PHC services by 47%; 91.96% of pharmacists are not linked to any type of team. The types of professional relationship that have shown the most growth in the last ten years have been those characterized as “non-protected”, such as scholarships and internships, or other types of employment that do not guarantee labor rights. The highest population rates are in the southern states (49.2/100,000), and the lowest in the northeast and central-west (32/100,000). The slower growth over the last decade, the disparities between states and regions and the types of employment contracts all point to the need for continuous work by professional bodies and social control to defend the pharmaceutical workforce in order to advance the PNAF.

Keywords:

Pharmacists; Workforce; SUS; Primary Health Care

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Carvalho, MN, Monteguti, BR, Faraco, EB, Leite, SN. The pharmaceutical workforce in the SUS: developments and warnings over the last decade (2014-2023). Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/Aug). [Citado em 21/06/2026]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-pharmaceutical-workforce-in-the-sus-developments-and-warnings-over-the-last-decade-20142023/19779?id=19779



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