The Access to Medicines: The Weak Link of the Exemption of Healthcare Payment Policy for the Elderly in Senegal

Ka Ousseynou; Sow Papa Gallo; Bop Martial Coly; Mbaye El Hadji; Tall Alioune Badara; Touré Moustapha

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The Access to Medicines: The Weak Link of the Exemption of Healthcare Payment Policy for the Elderly in Senegal

Ka Ousseynou, Sow Papa Gallo, Bop Martial Coly, Mbaye El Hadji, Tall Alioune Badara, Touré Moustapha

Published in Science Journal of Public Health (Volume 5, Issue 4)

Received: 5 April 2017 Accepted: 21 April 2017 Published: 15 June 2017

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Abstract

The institutionalization of the Plan Sesame in Senegal or free access to healthcare for the elderly translates a real political will of decision-makers to answer the sanitary concerns of this category of vulnerable population. The objective of this study is to estimate the effectiveness of the free access to the Plan Sesame and to collect the appreciations of the recipients of the Plan. This study is based on a data connection of qualitative data in 2010 with the elderly and decision-makers and on a transverse quantitative and qualitative study in 2011 made to the only geriatric hospital of the country. The elderly are particularly affected by chronic pathologies and most drugs of which they need are not dealt by the Plan. They must buy them in private pharmacies. The not provision of these drugs known as of speciality favors the recourse to the illicit market of drugs with traditional medicine and even with the therapeutic abandonment. Moreover it worsened the social inequalities of health within the recipients of this Plan.

Published in	Science Journal of Public Health (Volume 5, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.sjph.20170504.15
Page(s)	307-312
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Health Policy, Free Access to Healthcare, Drugs, Elderly, Senegal

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Ka Ousseynou; Sow Papa Gallo; Bop Martial Coly; Mbaye El Hadji; Tall Alioune Badara, et al. The Access to Medicines: The Weak Link of the Exemption of Healthcare Payment Policy for the Elderly in Senegal. Sci. J. Public Health 2017, 5(4), 307-312. doi: 10.11648/j.sjph.20170504.15

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Ka Ousseynou, Sow Papa Gallo, Bop Martial Coly, Mbaye El Hadji, Tall Alioune Badara, et al. The Access to Medicines: The Weak Link of the Exemption of Healthcare Payment Policy for the Elderly in Senegal. Sci J Public Health. 2017;5(4):307-312. doi: 10.11648/j.sjph.20170504.15

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Ka Ousseynou

Faculty of Health and Sustainable Development, Alioune Diop University, Bambey, Senegal
Sow Papa Gallo

Faculty of Health and Sustainable Development, Alioune Diop University, Bambey, Senegal
Bop Martial Coly

Faculty of Health and Sustainable Development, Alioune Diop University, Bambey, Senegal
Mbaye El Hadji

Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Tall Alioune Badara

Faculty of Health and Sustainable Development, Alioune Diop University, Bambey, Senegal
Touré Moustapha

Centre of Gerontology Center of Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal

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Ka Ousseynou, Sow Papa Gallo, Bop Martial Coly, Mbaye El Hadji, Tall Alioune Badara, et al. The Access to Medicines: The Weak Link of the Exemption of Healthcare Payment Policy for the Elderly in Senegal. Sci J Public Health. 2017;5(4):307-312. doi: 10.11648/j.sjph.20170504.15

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