The purpose of this study was to identify and explore factors affecting medicine availability within the district health services. A qualitative descriptive, exploratory and contextual research design was followed. The data collection was conducted through two focus group discussions comprising of pharmaceutical managers and district health services managers respectively. The study found that medicine was not consistently available in the various districts, especially in community health centres and primary health clinics. The factors contributing to the non-availability of medicines include challenges with deliveries from Medical Depots, poor medicine stock management, shortage of pharmacists and pharmacist’s assistants in the facilities, lack of the electronic medicine management systems and the separate existence of Pharmaceutical Services and Medical Depot within the province. The study made recommendations on how to improve medicine availability within the district health services. / Health Studies / M.A. (Health Studies)

The purpose of this study was to identify and explore factors affecting medicine availability within the district health services. A qualitative descriptive, exploratory and contextual research design was followed. The data collection was conducted through two focus group discussions comprising of pharmaceutical managers and district health services managers respectively. The study found that medicine was not consistently available in the various districts, especially in community health centres and primary health clinics. The factors contributing to the non-availability of medicines include challenges with deliveries from Medical Depots, poor medicine stock management, shortage of pharmacists and pharmacist’s assistants in the facilities, lack of the electronic medicine management systems and the separate existence of Pharmaceutical Services and Medical Depot within the province. The study made recommendations on how to improve medicine availability within the district health services. / Health Studies / M.A. (Health Studies)

Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-04T12:36:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009 / Este estudo é uma avaliação acerca do grau de implementação do Programa deDST/HIV/AIDS no Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena (DSEI) de Mato Grosso do Sul - Região de Dourados, onde se localizam as aldeias Bororo e Jaguapiru. A Avaliação foi desenvolvida considerando a relevância e o peso atribuídos pelas equipes locais aos diferentes componentes do programa, a partir da percepção dos profissionais de saúde, inclusive indígenas. Quanto a metodologia, os dados de campo foram coletados entre julho e agosto de 2008. Além dos dados empíricos produzidos por meio de entrevistas semi-estrtuturadas e questionários, foram consideradas fontes secundárias que forneceram informações sobre o período de 2005 a 2008. Estas subsidiaram a contextualização interna e externa do programa e nortearam a comparação entre o que preconizam as políticas públicas e a forma em que elas são apropriadas na vida real do programa na localidade estudada. A caracterização do contexto externo do programa foi complementado por meio de revisão bibliográfica de estudos etnográficos desenvolvidos na região. A categoria de acesso da população indígena aos serviços de saúde, foi considerada em suas diferentes dimensões, tendo sido fio condutor para a definição da matriz de análise e da matriz de julgamento. Um importante exercício desta avaliação foi a construção de recomendações discutidas com os usuários do sistema de saúde com o intuito de contribuir com a melhoria do programa, as quais foram incorporadas neste estudo. Quanto aos resultados desta avaliação concluiu-se que, na perspectiva dos usuários alvo básicos, fatores relacionados a aspectos culturais da população indígena, às condições socioeconômicas da população, à atuação das agências governamentais indigenistas e às condições nas quais os serviços da rede de atenção básica de saúde estão instalados, influenciam a implementação do programa de DST / HIV/ AIDS no Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena. Conforme o modelo de avaliação proposto, registrou-se que o Programa de DST/HIV/AIDS no Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena do Mato Grosso do Sul - Região de Dourados, aldeias Bororo e Jaguapiru está em processo de implementação tendo obtido um score de 69 por cento. / The study presents an appraisal of the status of implementation of the STD/HIV/AIDS Programme in the Special Indigenous Health District in the Dourados region of Mato Grosso do Sul State where the villages of the Bororo and Jaguapiru are located. The evaluation used qualitative methodology and took into account the relevance and weight local teams attributed to programme components, namely materials, activities and products. Field data gathering was done in July and August of 2008 and secondary sources of information referring to the period 2005 to 2008 were also used to establish the internal and external context of the programme itself and enable an identification of what the programme expects to occur in that region and what is actually happening. A bibliographic review of ethnographical studies carried out in the region helped to establish the programme’s external context. One of the major tasks of the evaluation is to put forward recommendations for improving the programme that have been duly discussed with its targeted users. The evaluation also considered formal aspects of the programme components based on the perceptions of the health workers, some of whom are indigenous people. In regard to the primary users targeted by the programme, factors associated to cultural aspects of the indigenous population, their living conditions, the performance of government indigenist agencies and the conditions in which services of the primary health network are installed affect the implementation of the STD/HIV/AIDS Programme in the Special Indigenous Health District. Access of the indigenous population to the different aspects of the health services has been analysed in this evaluation and has served to provide a thread of continuity linking the definition of the analysis matrix and the judgement matrix, in compliance with the proposed methodology. The evaluation has concluded that the STD/HIV/AIDS Programme in the Special Indigenous Health District in the Dourados region of Mato Grosso do Sul State, where the villages of the Bororo and Juguapiru are located, has been partly implemented and attributed it a score of 69%.