Tecnologias em saúde envolvidas nas ações de saúde realizadas por farmacêuticos na Atenção Primária À Saúde

Abstract

The current model of Primary Health Care (Atenção Primária à Saúde – APS) must rely on the appropriate use of health technologies involved in the care of individuals, families and the community, prioritizing soft and soft-hard technologies. In pharmaceutical practice, the centrality of the drug to the detriment of the person leads to the prevalence of hard and soft-hard technologies. This can be attributed to issues ranging from the professional academic and cultural formation to the organization of services. However, there have been gradual shifts away from the focus on the medication towards a focus on the user and the use of soft technologies, reorienting the performance to the perspective of the care model, ensuring the necessary changes in the organization of Pharmaceutical Care (Assistência Farmacêutica – AF) within the Health Care Network (Rede de Atenção à Saúde – RAS). Objectives: to analyze the health technologies involved in the practice of pharmacists in APS in a municipality, Minas Gerais. Methodology: data was collected between October and November 2023, by applying a sociodemographic questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The IRaMuTeQ software (Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires) was used for data treatment and content analysis was carried out according to Bardin (1977). Results: three categories emerged: 1) activities developed by pharmacists in APS and the health technologies involved; 2) potentialities and advances identified by pharmacists in the implementation of health actions and comprehensive care; 3) challenges faced by pharmacists in their daily routine in APS to carry out health actions for comprehensive care. The results reveal the difficulty of pharmacists in understanding the current model of health care and in identifying the technologies used in the development of the work process, with hard technologies being the most prevalent, to the detriment of soft and softhard technologies. Conclusion: there is a need for continuing and permanent education for professionals to meet the family health model, which focuses on comprehensive care, and for protocols to be drawn up and improvement of the infrastructure of APS pharmacies in order to improve the quality of services provided. The insertion of the professional in the health team is considered an advance and a potentiality, as it adds professional knowledge to comprehensive care in APS.