Os textos de bula na perspectiva da gestão social do conhecimento.

Abstract

The inappropriate use of medicines is considered by World Health Organization as one of the most serious public health problems nowadays. For if they are, of course, a primary source of information for many users of medicines, the drug leaflets will play an important role in this context since its improper use can be caused by problems linked to the quality of information. The general objective of this research is to identify opportunities for intervention in the drug leaflets, with the aim of contributing to the rational use of medicines given to a citizen's rights, which is: to obtain information in form and content comprehensible to staff not technical. Through research on the basis of digital libraries of the federal public universities, we tried to identify the post-graduate work developed in the last ten years, in order to determine which areas of knowledge has developed research with drug leaflets. Through the search result, it was possible to identify the need for studies that contribute to the improvement of the preparation of the drug leaflets, thus promoting the implementation of interventions to cover not only its the regulatory aspect as has been done until then but also addressing its educational aspect, making the drug leaflet an instrument that has meaning and to the public is intended.