Evaluation of accessibility to drugs for patients in the years 1996-2001
Drozd, M.
Wiadomosci Lekarskie 55 Suppl. 1(Pt 2): 651-654
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5147 PMID: 17474578 Document Number: 550482
A research of a level and structure of drug consumption must be verified with foundations of politics carried on by State on a scale of the drugs. An extension of a drug assortment and modification of refunded drug registers cause changes in the consumption of drugs. The research of behaviors of drug consumers in the eye of the system transformation and a reform of health protection appears to be very important among other things on account of constantly too little capital resources. Basing oneself on the data of the drug consumption, it has been decided to define an influence of the principle changes of repayment principles at the accessibility of the drugs for the patients. It has been represented the detailed value analysis of the drug consumption, refund and payments carried out by the patients for the drugs dispensed on prescriptions at 15 chemist's shops of Lublin Province in 1996-2001 years. In above mentioned years a reduction of expenses for pharmacotherapy in out-patient medical service born by national budget and from 1999 by health-insurance has been ascertained. In consequence of these effects it was the diminution of the accessibility to the drugs by the patients on account of a growth of patient participation in the pharmacotherapy costs.