Análise dos gastos públicos e da distribuição dos medicamentos na atenção básica de saúde do município de Fortaleza-Ce, no ano de 2006

Abstract

This study belongs to a great evaluating research of Pharmaceutical Assistance in the city of Fortaleza – Ceará, developed by Federal University of Ceará, Secretary of Public Health of Fortaleza, FUNCAP and CNPq. From the evidence that the world´s expenses and Brazil´s expenses in medicines remain increasing; there is a demand of studies on expenses evaluating, it means, studies on pharmacoeconomics. The present study was originated from the necessity to develop analysis of the characteristics of the medicines distributed and their corresponding public expenses, in Basic Health Care in the city of Fortaleza, state of Ceará – Brazil, aiming for contribute to the rationing of expenses and uses of medicines. It is an ecological study, with descriptive and exploratory approach, quantitative, in the year of 2006. Its principal objective is to describe and analyse the development of the public expenses and the distribution of the medicines for the Basic Health Care, related to Fortaleza and its six administrative regions. With this finality, it was described the funding of Pharmaceutical Assistance in Basic Health Care, it was measured the consumption of medicines in “defined diary drug (ddd)”/ 1000 inhabitants/day and classified the medicines by the “Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC) (2º, 3º and 5º levels)”, connecting with expenses, making a comparison among the six administrative regions of Fortaleza. These are the principal results and conclusions obtained: all the per capita resources planned by CIB were transferred, those related to the medicines of PA in BHC; the expenses with medicines from the BHC Standardized List were R$ 10.069.267,11; the proportion between the expenses for Health and for medicines was 1,53%; the Therapeutical Group with the biggest expenses was the Antibactericids for sistemic use; the Therapeutical Subgroup that represented the greatest expense was the Beta-lactamic Antibactericids/Penicilinas; Captopril 25mg was the more expensive medicine in all the six administrative regions. Concluding, some medicine have consumption and expenses greater than the media indicated by other studies; initiatives are necessary to rationalize the use of those medicine and for Pharmaceutical Assistance in Fortaleza become more efficient.