0273/2012 - Uma Abordagem sobre o Uso de Medicamentos nos Livros Didáticos de Biologia como Estratégia de Promoção de Saúde An Approach on the Use of Medicines in biology textbooks as a Strategy for Health Promotion
O uso inadequado de medicamentos constitui uma grande ameaça à saúde pública. Corroborando essa ideia, os medicamentos ocupam a primeira posição dentre os agentes causadores de intoxicação no Brasil, à frente de venenos para roedores e insetos, drogas ilícitas, agrotóxicos, produtos de limpeza e alimentos estragados. Os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais do Ensino Médio (PCN+) dão grande ênfase à saúde, uma vez que encontramos o tema Medicamentos mencionado repetidas vezes em seus conteúdos. O objetivo da pesquisa foi estudar as abordagens sobre o uso de medicamentos nos livros didáticos. Foram analisados onze livros didáticos de biologia, sendo seis constituídos de volumes únicos e cinco com três volumes cada, num total de vinte e um volumes. O uso racional de medicamentos deve ser considerado um tópico importante da promoção da saúde que atinge todos os setores da sociedade, devendo ser enfatizado na educação básica. Diante disso, e com base em nossos resultados, sugerimos que os livros didáticos analisados poderiam ser adequados às novas legislações e conteúdos que abordem o URM, atendendo assim as recomendações dos PCN+. Para tanto, os livros poderiam abordar de forma concisa os temas: automedicação, adesão ao tratamento medicamentoso, propagandas e reportagens sobre medicamentos entre outros.
Palavras-chave:
Uso racional de medicamentos
Promoção de Saúde
livros
ensino medio
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
An Approach on the Use of Medicines in biology textbooks as a Strategy for Health Promotion
Resumo (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.
Palavras-chave (keywords):
Rational use of medicines
textbook
Education
Health promotion
Correa, AD, Souza CAM, Caminha JR, ALVES,LA. Uma Abordagem sobre o Uso de Medicamentos nos Livros Didáticos de Biologia como Estratégia de Promoção de Saúde. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2012/mar). [Citado em 24/12/2024].
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