Indicators of physical accessibility of antihypertensive medications | ||||
% of users with antihypertensive prescriptions who did not have access to their medication within the previous 30 days (n = 120) | 14.1 | (n = 17) | ||
% of prescriptions for antihypertensive medications for which the recipient encountered some degree of difficulty in acquiring their medication (n = 198) | 27.7 | (n = 55) | ||
% of the recipients who sought antihypertensive medication sat a pharmacy and could NOT obtain all the drugs they needed | SUS pharmacy (n = 68) | 32.3 | (n = 22) | |
Private pharmacy (n = 95) | 7.4 | (n = 7) | ||
“People’s Pharmacy” (n = 62) | 17.7 | (n = 11) | ||
% of prescriptions for antihypertensive medications for which the recipient did not find the drug at the pharmacy (n = 163) | SUS pharmacy | 12.8 | (n = 21) | |
Private pharmacy | 2.4 | (n = 4) | ||
“People’s Pharmacy” | 4.9 | (n = 8) | ||
% of responses that antihypertensive medications were not available at the pharmacy, including the responses “sometimes missing”, ”almost always missing” and “always missing” | SUS pharmacy (n = 67) | 83.6 | (n = 56) | |
Private pharmacy (n = 94) | 14.9 | (n = 14) | ||
“People’s Pharmacy” (n = 60) | 33.3 | (n = 20) | ||
Indicators of financial accessibility of antihypertensive medications | ||||
% of drugs for which recipient had to pay (n = 215) | 35.3 | (n = 76) | ||
% of users who considered the price of medications “expensive” or “very expensive” (n = 120) | 53.3 | (n = 64) | ||
% of users who did not take their medications because they were unable to pay for them (n = 120) | 19.1 | (n = 23) | ||
% of users who stated that during the previous year they had been unable to buy a daily necessity, had to take out a loan or had to sell something to pay for costs incurred because of a health problem (n = 120) | 12.5 | (n = 15) | ||
Indicators of geographical accessibility of antihypertensive medications | ||||
% of users who did NOT consider it “difficult” to get to the pharmacy | SUS pharmacy (n = 68) | 64.7 | (n = 44) | |
Private pharmacy (n = 93) | 81.7 | (n = 76) | ||
“People’s Pharmacy” (n = 59) | 81.4 | (n = 48) | ||
% of users who did not go to collect drugs because of difficulty of getting to pharmacy | SUS pharmacy (n = 68) | 4.4 | (n = 3) | |
Private pharmacy (n = 94) | 4.2 | (n = 4) | ||
“People’s Pharmacy” (n = 61) | 3.3 | (n = 2) | ||
% of users who walk to pharmacy | SUS pharmacy (n = 68) | 64.7 | (n = 44) | |
Private pharmacy (n = 94) | 75.6 | (n = 71) | ||
“People’s Pharmacy” (n = 61) | 70.5 | (n = 43) | ||
% of users who considered the pharmacy a long distance away | SUS pharmacy (n = 68) | 14.7 | (n = 10) | |
Private pharmacy (n = 94) | 3.2 | (n = 3) | ||
“People’s Pharmacy” (n = 61) | 1.6 | (n = 1) | ||
Indicators of acceptability of and satisfaction with antihypertensive medications | ||||
% of antihypertensive medications administered with which recipients stated they were satisfied (n = 203) | 93.1 | (n = 189) | ||
% of antihypertensive medications administered with which recipients reported some type of discomfort or health problem related to taking the medication (n = 215) | 4.7 | (n = 10) | ||