A educação em saúde como estratégia para humanização da atenção farmacêutica

Abstract

Reinforcing the struggle and achievements with health reform, humanization in health services comes invigorate concepts of National Health Policy that way, the patient care implies a humanized action, where it gives rise to the word user and professional, in order to promote actions and welfare policies with dignity, ethics, respect, mutual recognition and solidarity. In this sense, considering the importance of humanization in pharmaceutical care, the aim of this study is to identify how health education can collaborate with a humanized pharmaceutical care. An integrative literature review was conducted in major databases and found 20 articles and compiled the key findings on health education as a strategy for humanization of pharmaceutical care. It was found that health education is a set of knowledgeoriented practices oriented towards disease prevention and health promotion. The Pharmaceutical Care complements this action once the pharmacist shall be responsible and respond to the patient's anxieties over drugs. Added to this, this study demonstrated the need for the pharmacist to apply your skills in health education in order to build a subject with autonomy and worker for their welfare, since use of pedagogical practices, they can redesign, rebuild and trace settings for new therapeutic areas, as well as for the use of dynamic team teaching and the use of illustrative figures. Most educational strategies described in this study were simple and inexpensive, requiring only creativity and sensitivity of the pharmacist to adapt them to different users who seek day-to-day.