The evolution of pharmaceutical care and the prospect for the Brazil

Abstract

The Pharmaceutical Care, recent practice of the pharmaceutical activity, prioritizes the orientation and the pharmacotherapeutic follow up, besides direct relation among the pharmacist and the medicine's user. In most developed countries the Pharmaceutical Care is already a reality and has demonstrated efficacy in the reduction of aggravation in the chronical diseases and in the cost of the health system. In Brazil, this activity is still incipient due to the difficulty of access to the medicines by the users of the Health System, absence of pharmacists in the Basic Units of Health and absence of scientific documentation that may demonstrate to the managers of the public and private system of Health that the implementation of Pharmaceutical Care represent investment and not cost. However, for being a new activity of the pharmacist, it is demanding that the pharmaceutical education institutions promote the necessary adaptations, providing the formal knowledge for the practice of this activity. This paper discuss the Pharmaceutical Care in countries that present more evolution in your desenvelopment according with MedLine/Pubmed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed). This article compared the difficulties of the Brazil and others countries for the implantation of Pharmaceutical Care and the prospect for the future.