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 Medicines available on the market with the same name, strength and pharmaceutical form (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Medicines available on the market with the same name, strength and pharmaceutical form (No.); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Pharmacies statistics
First available period 1986
Last available period 2015
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
Concepts
  • MEDICINE:  Any substance or composition which properties prevent or treat diseases and their symptoms, either human or animal, in order to establish a medical diagnosis or to restore, correct or modify their functions.
  • MEDICINE DEPOT:  A unit targeted at dispensing medications to the general public, of the responsibility of a pharmacist and depending on a pharmacy in the permit of which it is registered. Its establishment and operating conditions are special and duly regulated.
  • FORMA FARMACÊUTICA:  Final stage presented by active substances or excipients after being submitted to the necessary pharmaceutical operations, in order to facilitate its intake and obtain the highest therapeutic effect.
  • PHARMACY:  Health facility, licensed by a permit granted by the National Pharmacy and Medicines Institute (Portuguese acronym: INFARMED), only awarded to pharmacists on the basis of tendering procedures. The carrying on of its activity is duly regulated, and it is the task of pharmacists or of pharmacy technicians under their supervision, to compound, control, store and dispense medications to the general public. Under duly regulated conditions, it may have two new medicine depots.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 28/10/2016


information presented in 6/7/2025