Sensibilização dos agentes comunitários de saúde para a atuação nas ações prevenção e controle da hanseníase: relato de experiência / Sensitization of community health agents in leprosy control actions: an experience report

Introdução: A integração das Ações de Controle da Hanseníase (ACH) na Atenção Primária à saúde é considerada atualmente a melhor estratégia para diminuição da carga da doença. são realizadas ações que visam à promoção, prevenção, recuperação e reabilitação comprometida com a integralidade da assistência à saúde, focado na família, considerando o contexto socioeconômico, cultural e epidemiológico da comunidade em que está inserido. Objetivo:descrever a experiência de sensibilização dos Agentes Comunitários de saúde (ACs) de um município do Centro-oeste Mineiro para desenvolverem ações de prevenção e controle de hanseníase a fim de reduzir o estigma e realizar o diagnóstico oportuno de casos. Relato da experiência: Trata-se de um projeto de extensão universitária financiado pela Pró-reitoria de extensão e Assuntos Comunitários da universidade Federal de são João del rei. Foi desenvolvido no município de Carmo do Cajuru no período de março 2015 a março 2016, com 26 ACs. Para desenvolvimento das atividades foi usado o método interacionista, que é a perspectiva na qual o sujeito age diretamente sobre o objeto do conhecimento, problematizando sua ação. Como estratégica metodológica foram realizadas dinâmicas, exposição dialogada, apresentação de um vídeo seguido de roda de conversa e avaliação com exposição de frases em que o participante as julgariam como verdadeiras ou falsas. Resultados: A equipe do projeto estimulou a elaboração de um plano de mobilização da comunidade sobre a hanseníase que foi executado durante o ano de 2016. A partir da sensibilização da comunidade na igreja, houve a demanda espontânea ao serviço de saúde de uma pessoa com sinais dermatológicos, sendo que o diagnóstico de hanseníase foi confirmado em março de 2016. Conclusão: A realização de educação permanente dos ACS permitiu a qualificação para a realização das ACH na comunidade.

Introduction: The integration of leprosy control actions (LCA) in primary health care is currently considered the best strategy to reduce the burden of disease. Actions aimed by promotion, prevention, recovery and rehabilitation committed to integrality of health care, focused on the family, considering the socioeconomic, cultural and epidemiological context of the community in which it is inserted. Objective: to describe the experience of sensitization of the Community Health Agents (CHA) of a Brazilian municipality to develop leprosy control actions in order to reduce the stigma and to make a timely diagnosis of cases. Experience report: This is a university extension project funded by the Pro-rectory of Extension and Community Affairs of the Federal University of São João del Rei. It was developed in the municipality of Carmo do Cajuru from march 2015 to march 2016, with 26 CHA. For the development of activities, the interactionist method was used, which is the perspective in which the subject acts directly on the object of knowledge, problematizing its action. As a methodological strategy, dynamics were carried out, a dialogical presentation, a video followed by a round of conversation and evaluation with an exposition of sentences in which the participant would judge them as true or false. Results: The project team encouraged the development of a community mobilization plan on leprosy that was implemented during the year 2016. From the sensitization of the community in the church that there was spontaneous demand to the health service of a person with signs and the diagnosis of leprosy was confirmed in March 2016. Conclusion: The achievement of permanent education of the CHA allowed the qualification for the accomplishment of the LCA in the community.

A Report from Task Force on Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmaceutical Education / 薬剤疫学

For the purpose of pharmacists to be able to be more involved clinically, the pharmacy education system in Japan was revised in April 2006 and the term length of pharmacy education was extended from 4 years to 6 years.<Br> The Japanese Society for Pharmacoepidemiology is deeply concerned about the new curriculum which will be adopted for the 6-year course, especially the handling of pharmacoepidemiology education. Two questionnaire surveys were sent to the dean of all schools of pharmacy to inquire whether they lecture pharmacoepidemiology and, if not, what study in pharmaceutical sciences would be most closely related to pharmacoepidemiology. The surveys were conducted just before and just after the introduction of the new system, in October 2005 and July 2007. The recovery of the first and second survey were 90% and 76%, respectively.<Br> In the first survey only 17 universities (31%) had lectures on pharmacoepidemiology but in the second survey 31 universities (57%) did, and in 55% of these 31 universities the lecture was required. The result indicates that the understanding of professors of pharmacy school regarding the lecture have been gradually promoted and they feel that pharmacoepidemiology is going to be considered to be one of the essential lectures in pharmacy education in Japan. However, many responders indicated that pharmacoepidemiology was still an immature field of study and there are few appropriate textbooks and no teaching experts, and therefore, the society should take these matters into reconsideration.