Health care, including access to medicines, is granted as a citizen's right by the Brazilian Constitution through a national health system called Unified Health System (SUS). The Pharmaceutical Care Programmes of SUS are, quite often, the only way a large part of the population has to obtain...

The effects associated with stabilization programmes, specially persistent inflation accompanied by prolonged periods of recession with unemployment, attract the attention on the evaluation of the consistency between the orthodox approach and the economic situation which characterizes the...