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Vera Lucia Luiza
Researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Publications - 123
Citations - 2077
Vera Lucia Luiza is an academic researcher from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 107 publications receiving 1564 citations.
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Essential medicines for universal health coverage
Veronika J. Wirtz,Hans V Hogerzeil,Andy Gray,Maryam Bigdeli,Cornelis de Joncheere,Margaret Ewen,Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt,Sun Jing,Vera Lucia Luiza,Regina M Mbindyo,Helene Möller,Corrina Moucheraud,Bernard Pécoul,Lembit Rägo,Arash Rashidian,Arash Rashidian,Dennis Ross-Degnan,Dennis Ross-Degnan,Peter Stephens,Yot Teerawattananon,Ellen 't Hoen,Anita K. Wagner,Anita K. Wagner,Prashant Yadav,Michael R. Reich +24 more
TL;DR: Author(s): Wirtz, Veronika J; Hogerzeil, Hans V; Gray, Andrew L; de Joncheere, Cornelis P; Ewen, Margaret A; Gyansa-Lutterodt, Martha; Jing, Sun; Luiza, Vera L; Mbindyo, Regina M; Moller, Helene; Moucheraud, Corrina; Pecoul, Bernard; Rago, Lembit; Rashidian, Arash
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Mandados judiciais como ferramenta para garantia do acesso a medicamentos no setor público: a experiência do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional design was used to describe and analyze the legal suits in relation to the responsibilities defined under the Unified National Health System (SUS), and the most frequent cases involve medicines for the cardiovascular and nervous systems, many of which involve continuous use.
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Prevalência da automedicação no Brasil e fatores associados
Paulo Sérgio Dourado Arrais,Maria Eneida Porto Fernandes,Tatiane da Silva Dal Pizzol,Luiz Roberto Ramos,Sotero Serrate Mengue,Vera Lucia Luiza,Noemia Urruth Leão Tavares,Mareni Rocha Farias,Maria Auxiliadora Oliveira,Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi +9 more
TL;DR: Analisar a prevalencia e os fatores associados a utilizacao de medicamentos por automedicacao no Brasil no Brasileiros.
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Pharmaceutical policies: effects of cap and co-payment on rational use of medicines
Vera Lucia Luiza,Luisa Arueira Chaves,Rondineli Mendes da Silva,Isabel Cristina Martins Emmerick,Gabriela Costa Chaves,Silvia Cristina Fonseca de Araújo,Elaine L Moraes,Andrew D Oxman +7 more
TL;DR: Increasing the amount of money that people pay for medicines may reduce insurers' medicine expenditures and may reduce patients' medicine use, and the certainty of the evidence was found to be generally low to very low.
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Polypharmacy and Polymorbidity in Older Adults in Brazil: a public health challenge
Luiz Roberto Ramos,Noemia Urruth Leão Tavares,Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi,Mareni Rocha Farias,Maria Auxiliadora Oliveira,Vera Lucia Luiza,Tatiane da Silva Dal Pizzol,Paulo Sérgio Dourado Arrais,Sotero Serrate Mengue +8 more
TL;DR: With the current population aging and successful drug access policy, the trend is an increase in drug use by older adults, which should feature as a priority in the planning agenda of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS).