[Integrality-building in the care of people with diabetes mellitus in a healthcare unit of Feira de Santana, Bahia State]. / Construção da integralidade no cuidar de pessoas com diabetes mellitus em um centro de saúde em Feira de Santana (BA).

This study analyses the care of people with diabetes mellitus (DM), under the light of integrality, through access, bond-accountability, and team formation in a healthcare unit of Feira de Santana, Bahia State. It is a qualitative study adopting a critical and reflexive approach. The subjects were healthcare workers (Group I) and users registered in the diabetes program (Group 2). Data collection techniques included a structured interview and systematic observations, while the data analysis was based on content analysis and Merhy's analyzer flow chart. The results reveal that basic attention has little structure, an ineffective organization model, and a healthcare process built on the everyday of the service in a fragmented and shallow way, centered on the figure of the doctor. They also reveal that municipalization of health, as it has been done in Feira de Santana, caused the dismantling and discontinuation of healthcare attention to people with DM. Access is restricted, focused on and directed to low-complexity actions. Hosting and bond with the user are still distant from co-responsability, and there is a lack of autonomy and education in the process. In conclusion, it is necessary to widen the debate on whole care and work management, and valuate the everyday praxis of those involved with care.

[Pharmaceutical assistance in the basic units of health: from the national drug policy to the basic attention to health]. / Assistência Farmacêutica no Sistema Único de Saúde: da Política Nacional de Medicamentos à Atenção Básica à Saúde.

This study of theoretical revision discuss the Pharmaceutical Assistance in the Basic Units of Health, rescuing briefly the history of the National Drug Policy, the mechanisms of financing in the process of health decentralization and Pharmaceutical Assistance on the Basic Attention to Health. The expansion of the population access to the health system has demanded changes on drug distribution in order to increase the coverage and at the same time to reduce costs. It was identified advances in legal and institutional structures: the management decentralization of actions on pharmaceutical assistance; the expansion of the population access to essential medicines; and the establishment of the pharmaceutical assistance in some cities. However, it still persists priority actions in relation to the financing and population coverage, in detriment of quality processes. The conclusion is that, many Brazilian cities has low availability and discontinuity of essential medicine offer; dispensation by workers without qualification; inadequate conditions of storage that compromise the quality of medicines; medicine prescription that does not belong to the National Reference of Essential Medicines; and problems related to the access of users to the pharmacotherapy.