Política Nacional de Medicamentos: análise a partir do contexto, conteúdo e processos envolvidos

Abstract

Public policies are structured with the objective of being a response given by the public power to the various demands, problems and tensions generated in the society. They must have magnitude and social relevance, as well as having enough bargain power to take part in the agend of priorities of a certain organ that foments the policies. This way, a policy is constituted by its purposes, directrixes and the definition of the responsibilities of the government spheres and the organs that are involved. Therefore, the brazilian policy of drugs, inserted in the Health Policy, constitutes one of the fundamental elements for the implementation of actions capable of promoting improvement in the health conditions. It institutes the guarantee of availability, access and rational use of the drugs by all of the sectors of the population, according to their profile of morbimortality. Within this perspective, the present work intended to make an analysis of the National Drug Policy (NDP) in order to comprehend the data found. Based on the qualitative approach, taking into consideration what the document that has founded the NDP says, besides a review of the literature, the mapping and analyses of such data have been done, generating categories (context, content and involved processes). This study has let us conclude that the NDP does not hold many of the problems related to the use of drugs as well as that it has not obtained the tools to give all the necessary governmental responses to many of the problems arisen by it or even the existing ones that have not been contemplated by it. The governments, both the one which has formulated it and the ones which have succeed it, have advanced in their directrixes or kept on endeavoring for so, to contribute to the effectuation of the right of integral therapeutic assistance.