Consumo de medicamentos e automedicação em adultos - estudo bibliográfico

Abstract

The consumption of medicament and self-medication in adults are a relevant subject, and, for this reason, this article makes a bibliographical, compiling publications on-line of the last ten years, that treat to respect, to understand and analyze the theme. The research used the Descriptor in Sciences of the Health (DeCS) and the data were collected by it consults at the Virtual Library of Health - BVS/Bireme, in the databases of the Latin-American Literature and of Caribbean, in Sciences of the Health (LILACS) and in Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval On-line System (MEDLINE). 18 available goods started to compose the corpus of the analyzed data and the study used quanti-qualitative descriptive approach. The analysis of the tendency of the scientific productions was revealed assistance absolutely, with little focus for the prevention. It was found that the consumption of medical produts without knowledge and self-medication are practiced in all age groups of the adult population in the country is therefore essential to clarify regarding the risks of these practices.