Projeto de implementação do uso adequado da fitoterapia na Unidade de Saúde de Águas Férreas do município de São Pedro dos Ferros, Minas Gerais

Abstract

In 2003 the National Policy on Integrative and Complementary Practices in Health was elaborated, which contemplates holistic approaches in health care and represents a milestone for the promotion of phytotherapy in Brazil. This Intervention Project aims to elaborate a project of intervention with a view to the implementation of phytotherapy for the Health Unit of Water Trains, linking it to the Institution of Local Teaching through the valorization of the cultural knowledge of the community in São Pedro dos Ferros, Município de Minas General allowing the integration of the health area with education aiming at a set of socio-educational actions and scientific information contributing, in this way, to the improvement of the quality of life of the inhabitants. The project was organized from the Situational Strategic Planning and theoretical foundation made in the Virtual Health Library, with the descriptors: phytotherapy, health promotion and self-medication. It is hoped that the actions proposed and that escape the context of the pharmaceutical industry meet the basic health care needs: prevention, control and promotion of health aiming at each patient to be a participant as an active subject in the society to which it is a part.