O profissional farmacêutico na âmbito do SUS: um enfoque à assistência farmacêutica

Abstract

Care as part of the system of primary health care, behaving well, a review about the exercise of the pharmacist within the Unified Health System (SUS). The reflection is guided in the legal framework, in reality the system, empirical knowledge derived from experience of the author, and especially on the results of studies on the subject. Currently, the Pharmaceutical Care is considered a public health action and involves allocating substantial and growing volumes of public resources, however, poses serious problems of management and organization. It is observed that the performance of the pharmacist along with primary care teams made up of importance because it is the professional who has the technical capability to conduct specific actions to improve access and promote the correct use of medicines, and developing effective pharmaceutical care as a whole. In view of the new shapes of SUS, and how perspectives, which consider a restructuring of Pharmaceutical Care and the pharmacist as the protagonist of a disciplinary action involving the entire healthcare team that focuses on not only holds in medicine, but in the clinical care of the patient and the implementation of pharmaceutical care services quality, enabling the monitoring of treatment, promoting the rational use of medicines and therefore the optimization of therapeutic results.