Assistência farmacêutica municipal na atenção à saúde: desafios para a Universidade

Abstract

The Brazilian universal Healthcare system (SUS) by constitution free universal access to high quality and rational services and medications, essential tool for health are also responsible for high morbidity and mortality rates.The development of strategies to improve practices of healthcare students and professional on rational medication use has been the goal of the Education Program for the Rational Medication Use (PURAME). It deals with university Extensions project, understanding it as “the education, cultural or cientific process that articulates Teaching and Research in non dissociable way and makes possible the transforming relationship between University and Society”. The study was drawn in order to develop actions that result in medication safety, preventing and reducing their problems, with the students and professionals participation. Educating campaigns, course about medications, manegement and clinical pharmacy pratices are developed in Ribeirão Preto and Luiz Antonio municipalities resulting in students and professionals training, as well as patients counseling on correct medications use. Besides, clinical  pharmacy practices reduce morbidity and mortality rates caused by medications. The implemention of these actions and practices through students inserts the university in the reality and democratizes knowledge that result in better quality of life.