<p>Table 1- Description of studies measuring medicines access on household level. Author /Study Setting / Study Level / Main goal of the study Keywords Instrument Year / Design period/year health care quality, access, and Bertoldi et al. / To describe medicine utilization Southern City / evaluation; drug utilization; health Brazil, 2008 patterns, to evaluate access and free Developed by the authors July-September / 2003 expenditures; pharmaceutical Cross-sectional medicines access policy; developing countries Paniz et al. / South and Northeast To evaluate the prevalence of access drug chronic use; Brazil / 2008 / regions/ to continuous-use medicines and drug utilization; hypertension; Developed by the authors Cross-sectional March-August / 2005 associated factors diabetes mellitus; mental health To evaluate patient expenditures for Tediosi et al. / Two rural districts / primary care services Prescriptions, Drug Tajikistan / 2008 / May-June / 2005 and accessibility of prescription AND Developed by the authors Cross-sectional medicines in two rural primary health care * districts served by family medicine Carvalho MFC/ To study the risks of polimedication SABE – developed by the researchers of the Southeastern City/ Elderly; pharmacoepidemiology; Brazil / 2007 among elderly people from Sao multicenter study, coordinated by PAHO 2000 medicine, inappropriate use; survey Cross-sectional Paulo, Brazil (Latin America/ Caribbean) / Carvalho et al. / National / drugs; WHO to evaluate health systems performance To describe medicine utilization in Brazil / 2005 / January-September / drug utilization; of the member countries the Brazilian population Cross-sectional 2003 drug prescriptions (adapted to Brazil) To evaluate the results of Health policy; pharmaceutical PAHO, WHO, MH / National / pharmaceutical policies with respect assistance; medicine policy WHO for the household survey about medicines Brazil /2005 / September / 2004 to access, quality and rational evaluation; access/use (adapted for Brazil) Cross-sectional medicines use sanitary vigilance; Brazil Reed M. / To investigate the proportion of Drugs; medication; medicine; Center for Studying Health System Change National / United States/ 2005 adults facing problems to obtain drug utilization AND (HSC) Community Tracking Study (CTS) 2000-01 and 2003 Cross-sectional prescribed medicine health services accessibility * Household Survey To measure cost-related medicine Piette et al. / National / underuse, population at risk, United States/ 2004 November–December/ Drug utilization * Developed by the authors treatments people forgo, and how Cross-sectional 2002 often Based on the UNICEF document Fernandes MEP / City from the Health assistance; health policy; To measure medicine utilization – The Bamako Initiative – Brazil / 1998 Northeast region / health economics; medicine use; with respect to health expenses “Household survey on medical attention and Cross-sectional February-May/ 1997 medicine expenses health expenses on household level” *Keyword used during paper search </p>