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Difficulties of health prefessionals facing the use of medicinal plants and fitotherapy

Objective: To identify the difficulties encountered by doctors and nurses on the applicability of medicinal plants and phytotherapics in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) of Caico/RN. Methods: A qualitative and descriptive study developed with 19 health professionals. The data collection occurred between January and February 2011 through semi-structured interviews with treatment and analysis mediated by thematic content analysis. Results: The subjects show that the cultural resistance of the population, the lack of knowledge of the health professionals on integrative and complementary practices (PIC), the lack of inputs in the health services and the fragility of popular knowledge hinder the use of medicinal plants and phytotherapy. Conclusion: It is necessary some investments in this area with capacitating actions and training of human resources, besides the physical and structural support. It is suggested the realization of researches along of teaching about PIC and evaluation of the egress' ability to respond to the demands in health services.

Difficulties of health prefessionals facing the use of medicinal plants and fitotherapy

Urheber*in: Varela, Danielle Souza Silva; Azevedo, Dulcian Medeiros de

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Alternative title
Dificuldades de profissionais de saúde frente ao uso de plantas medicinais e fitoterápicos
Dificultades de profesionales de la salud sobre el uso de plantas medicinales y fitoterápicos
ISSN
2175-5361
Extent
Seite(n): 3588-3600
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 5(2)

Subject
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Medizinsoziologie
Gesundheit
Familie
Gesundheitspersonal
Arzneimittel
Alternativmedizin
Pflege
Wissen
Ausbildung
Arzt
Pflegepersonal
Bevölkerung
Einstellung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Varela, Danielle Souza Silva
Azevedo, Dulcian Medeiros de
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2013

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55128-9
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Associated

  • Varela, Danielle Souza Silva
  • Azevedo, Dulcian Medeiros de

Time of origin

  • 2013

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