Política nacional de medicamentos, atenção e assistência farmacêutica: contribuições na promoção da saúde de idosos

Abstract

The year-on-year growth of elderly population in Brazil and the very limited funding available for health, in the context of Brazil, and for the propensity for chronic-degenerative diseases, strategic measures must be taken to ensure access and rational use of medicines. This publication is about a bibliographic review of an exploratory, descriptive study to set out the future prospects with actions and interventions from the knowledge of the Brazilian scientific production, over the past 16 (sixteen) years, related to attention and pharmaceutical assistance for older people. Given the concerns of the rigor of the research, it was taken methodological steps of an integrative review, except or on the evaluation of the data with regard to the analysis of the strength of evidence of the studies analyzed, as the object of study does not seek this type of assessment. This sample was obtained from some searches at the Virtual Health Library (Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, BVS, in Portuguese), using terms as elderly, older people, assistance and pharmaceutical care. At the end of the process of searching, it was obtained 25 (twenty-five) publications, which says that the concerns of the dedicated researchers to the health of the elderly, specifically the National Policy on Medication and the assistance and pharmaceutical care in Brazil are guided, even if unintentionally, by the guidelines of the National Policy for the Elderly. The results point to the necessary dialogue among the various public policies when articulate health care practices that makes sense to this growing population segment.