RT Journal Article
T1 Impact of Covid-19 containment on community pharmaceutical spending in Andalusia - Spain
A1 Florido Alba, Francisco
A1 García-Agua, Nuria
A1 Martín Reyes, Ángel
A1 Clavero Barranquero, Antonio
A1 García Ruiz, Antonio J.
K1 COVID-19
K1 Pandemics
K1 Prescription drugs
K1 Health expenditures
K1 Financial management
K1 National health programs
K1 Pharmacies
K1 Government programs
K1 Models, econometric
K1 Interrupted time series analysis
K1 Spain
K1 Pandemias
K1 Medicamentos bajo prescripción
K1 Gastos en salud
K1 Gestión financiera
K1 Programas nacionales de salud
K1 Farmacia
K1 Programas gubernamentales
K1 Modelos econométricos
K1 Análisis de series de tiempo interrumpido
K1 España
AB Background: In the field of health, the year 2020 will be remembered for testing (stressing) all health institutions and their forms of management (centralised and decentralised). The everyday activity of primary and hospital care was significantly altered by the introduction of telephone consultations, which reduce the number of visits to health centres or hospitals and are still relevant today in the face of successive waves of the pandemic.Objective: To analyse whether population confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the dispensing of medications in community pharmacies and the associated spending during the period March-July 2020 in Andalusia (Spain).Methods: A time series analysis applying econometric model analysis techniques to confirm or rule out whether the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the dispensing of medications by community pharmacies and the associated expenditures. The variables used were the number of medication containers dispensed by community pharmacies (charged to the public funds of the Spanish National Health System) and the expenditure on prescription drugs, both in relation to the population. The analysis was performed within the region of Andalusia, which has 8,464,441 inhabitants.Results: The data obtained from the time series confirmed that there were no significant differences during the studied period between the number of medication containers actually dispensed and the number that would have been expected to be dispensed according to the trend in this variable for the sample period. The expenditure results followed the same pattern.Conclusions: The health crisis produced by the COVID-19 lockdown had no impact on medication consumption in Andalusia.
PB Centro de Investigaciones y Publicaciones Farmacéuticas
SN 1885-642X
YR 2021
FD 2021-06-18
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/4390
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/4390
LA en
NO Florido Alba F, García-Agua N, Martín Reyes A, Clavero Barranquero A, García Ruiz AJ. Impact of Covid-19 containment on  community pharmaceutical spending in Andalusia - Spain. Pharmacy Practice 2021 Apr-Jun;19(2):2346
DS RISalud
RD Apr 16, 2025