Brazil
Overview
Pharmacy Benefits Management Project
Resources
Overview
These materials provide an overview of Brazil in the areas of health, healthcare, health-related legislation, and benefits.
Country Overview Presentation – October 17, 2005 
This presentation includes the country survey results and provides an overview of prevalent health conditions and information about the health system.
Country Call Highlights
The country conference calls are a forum for corporate members, regional staff, and field experts to benchmark on health and health-related issues.
March 22, 2006
The topics discussed include healthcare quality, legislation for cost sharing strategies and life insurance, and wellness initiatives for tobacco use, disability management, mental health services, and traffic safety.
October 17, 2005
The topics discussed include supplemental insurance types, cost sharing strategies, prescription drugs and pharmacy benefit management, health information technology, dental care, wellness initiatives, chronic care management/disease management, disability management, and infectious diseases.
Country Survey – October 6, 2005
This survey examined healthcare and drug costs, cost sharing, risk factors and prevention, care management, and vendors.
Pharmacy Benefits Management Project
The Institute collaborated with Caremark, its strategic partner, to develop pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services for employers and their employees in Brazil. These documents provide an overview of the project.
2007/2008 Brazilian Health Benefits Study: Focus on Pharmacy Benefits – April 2, 2008
Vidalink presented the findings of its employer-based health benefits survey. The survey focuses on employers' management of pharmacy benefits and Brazilian human resource executives' perceptions regarding the value of pharmacy benefits.
Note that this is a large presentation, and it will take time to download.
Pharmacy Benefit Management Services in Brazil – November 28, 2007 
This paper describes the results of a collaborative project conducted by IBM, CVS/Caremark and Vidalink to develop a pharmacy benefit management service in Brazil.
Resources
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