Administrative cases: an effective alternative to lawsuits in assuring access to medicines?

Abstract Background Although public policy in Brazil supports access to essential medicines, the health system cannot meet all demand. Increasingly, the population has used legal demands to seek access to medicines, an approach that can undermine equitable access by creating policy inconsistencies (...

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Main Authors: Virginia Oliveira Chagas, Mércia Pandolfo Provin, Rita Goreti Amaral
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-6529-3