Table 1.

Patients participating in Brazil’s ‘FP is available here’ programme, total and with two or more dispensings versus one dispensing, by gender, age and region, 2008–2012

		Total		Two or more dispensings		One dispensing only
Diabetes
Age (n; mean (SD))		6 026 058	55.5 (15.1)	3 608 677	56.8 (14.0)	2 417 381	53.6 (16.5)
Gender (n, %)	Woman	3 602 944	59.7%	2 168 131	60.0%	1 434 813	59.3%
	Man	2 413 718	40.0%	1 433 895	39.7%	979 823	40.5%
Region (n, %)	North	169 330	2.8%	79 517	2.2%	89 813	3.7%
	Northeast	849 184	14.1%	444 653	12.3%	404 531	16.7%
	Southeast	3 769 151	62.5%	2 336 807	64.7%	1 432 344	59.2%
	South	885 391	14.7%	540 572	15.0%	344 819	14.2%
	West-Centre	359 324	6.0%	209 963	5.8%	149 361	6.2%
Total		6 032 380	100.0%	3 611 512	100.0%	2 420 868	100.0%
Hypertension
Age (n; mean (SD))		14 374 244	55.8 (15.1)	9 525 183	56.7 (14.3)	4 849 061	53.97 (16.4)
Gender (n, %)	Woman	8 636 053	60.0%	5 777 649	60.6%	2 858 404	58.8%
	Man	5 714 487	39.7%	3 728 721	39.1%	1 985 766	40.9%
Region (n, %)	North	469 739	3.3%	232 250	2.4%	237 489	4.9%
	Northeast	2 121 308	14.7%	1 201 133	12.6%	920 175	18.9%
	Southeast	8 290 832	57.6%	5 714 243	59.9%	2 576 589	53.0%
	South	2 562 095	17.8%	1 780 678	18.7%	781 417	16.1%
	West-Centre	948 102	6.6%	606 029	6.4%	342 073	7.0%
Total		14 392 076	100.0%	9 534 333	100.0%	4 857 743	100.0%

FP, Farmácia Popular.