Perfil de utilização de medicamentos por mulheres privadas de liberdade em um município brasileiro de médio porte

Abstract

The country, which is in third position in relation to the number of people incarcerated in the world, is looking for measures that can guarantee health care for this population. Enacting important public policies aimed at promoting the health of these people, reducing the most frequent injuries, inserting the individual deprived of liberty in the Unified Health System, as well as preventing and guaranteeing access to medicines, implementing pharmaceutical assistance, according to the particularities of the prison population. In addition, it is known that the Brazilian prison population has serious health problems and high consumption of medicines. Given the above, with the objective of presenting the drug use in the recoveries of the Association for the Protection and Assistance to Convicts, this research was carried out with the participation of 17 women, divided into 3 stages: documentary investigation; analysis of clinical records and application of a semi-structured questionnaire. After collecting the data, it was possible to conclude that the study allowed to know the profile of use of medicines of the participants, enabling the development of health actions aimed at thispopulation, reinforcing the importance of pharmaceutical assistance for access and rational use of medicines, ensuring the quality of life of women deprived of their liberty.