New drugs in Brazil: do they meet Brazilian public health needs? Nuevos medicamentos en Brasil: ¿responden a las necesidades de la salud pública brasileña?

• Main Authors: Carlos Cezar Flores Vidotti, Lia Lusitana Cardozo de Castro, Simone Saad Calil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2008
• Subjects: Medicamentos nuevos; medicamentos de interés en salud pública; comercialización de medicamentos; innovación; farmacoepidemiología; Brasil; New drugs; drugs of interest in public health; pharmaceutical drug trade; innovation; pharmacoepidemiology; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Mercado
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/e554fb715c9e4c19814934126e2bf767

OBJECTIVES: To describe the new drugs marketed in Brazil during the period 2000-2004, compare the description to the country's burden of disease, and suggest initiatives capable of addressing the situation from the perspective of a developing country. METHODS: Records of new drugs were surveyed...