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0273/2012 - An Approach on the Use of Medicines in biology textbooks as a Strategy for Health Promotion
Uma Abordagem sobre o Uso de Medicamentos nos Livros Didáticos de Biologia como Estratégia de Promoção de Saúde

Author:

• Anderson Domingues Corrêa - Correa, AD - Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ eIFRJ - <adcorrea@gmail.com> +

Co-author(s):

• Cristina Alves Magalhães de Souza - Souza CAM - Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - <souzacam@ioc.fiocruz.br>
• Juliana dos Reis Caminha - Caminha JR - IFRJ - <Juliana.drc@gmail.com>
• Luiz Anastacio Alves - ALVES,LA - aboratório de Comunicação Celular-Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ - <alveslaa@ioc.fiocruz.br>

Thematic Area:

Informação e Comunicação em Saúde

Abstract:

The inappropriate use of medicines represents a major threat to public health. In keeping with this idea, the medicines rank first among the causing agents of poisoning in the Brazil, ahead of poisons for rodents and insects, illegal drugs, pesticides, cleaning products and spoiled food. It should be noted that the National Curriculum of Secondary Education (PCN+) gives a strong emphasis on health, since we found the drugs subject being mentioned several times in their content. The objective of this research was to study the approaches to drug use in textbooks. For this purpose, we analyzed eleven biology textbooks, in which six titles consist of single volume and five with three volumes each, a total of twenty-one volumes. The rational use of drug should be considered an important topic of health promotion which affect all sectors of society and should be emphasized in basic education. Faced with this idea and based on our results, we suggest that the textbooks analyzed could be adapted to the new legislation and addressing the content to URM, thus meeting the recommendations of the PCN+. In this context, the books could address concisely the following topics: self-medication, adherence to drug treatment, drug advertisements and reports among others.

Keywords:

Rational use of medicines textbook Education Health promotion

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Correa, AD, Souza CAM, Caminha JR, ALVES,LA. An Approach on the Use of Medicines in biology textbooks as a Strategy for Health Promotion. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2012/Mar). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/an-approach-on-the-use-of-medicines-in-biology-textbooks-as-a-strategy-for-health-promotion/9643



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