Pharmaceutical assistance in Primary Health Care: challenges and contributions

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Samyra Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Santos, Maria Yonara Batista, Silva, Hyan Ribeiro da, Carvalho, Alessandro Monteiro, Ferreira, Safyra Lima, Ribeiro, Karla Caroline Sousa Araújo, Vieira, Sarah Tallya Sousa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/33295
• topic: Atenção primária; Assistência farmacêutica; SUS.; Atención primaria; Cuidado farmacéutico; SUS.; Primary attention; Pharmaceutical care; SUS.

Primary health care (PHC) is a set of health practices at the individual and collective level, which is fundamental for the reduction of morbidity and mortality. In the Single Health System (SUS), the pharmacist in the multiprofessional team performs activities in the health system through actions in all spheres and levels of complexity, optimizing a managerial role, as well as technical assistance, seeking to interact with the entire health team. . The present work aims to demonstrate the contributions of the pharmacist and his difficulties faced for the valorization and exercise of his profession in primary health care and his insertion in the multiprofessional team focused on patient care. This is a study of an integrative review carried out using the electronic databases Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo) and ScienceDirect in the English and Portuguese languages ​​between the years 2015 to 2021. 16 articles were used. Based on the studies found, it can be concluded that pharmaceutical assistance plays an important role in primary health care, contributing positively so that this assistance is provided correctly, avoiding damages and aggravations to public health, as well as presenting difficulties for its isolation in health. team and infrastructure to carry out their work.