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The elderly belong to a parcel of the population who need a pharmaceutical attention service with an approach on promoting the rational use of medicines, thus decreasing the Medicine Related Problems (MRP). This was a longitudinal and quantitative study held with 27 elderly of a community from the suburb of Fortaleza - Ceará, Brazil, in the period of August, 2003 to July, 2004. The instrument for data collection consisted of a questionnaire with open and closed questions, being allowed the intervention of the interviewer when necessary. The method applied was adapted from the first step of Dader Method for Pharmacotherapy Follow-up (PTF) and was based on obtaining the patient’s pharmacotherapy history for posterior evaluation of the situation state and the identification and resolution of possible MRP. The results pointed out an excessive use of medicines. In 19 (70.3%) elderly, the routine use of more than one medicine was detected. Arterial hypertension was the most referred illness, affecting 14 (51.8%) of the subjects; three made use of medicines of high risk for elderly people. From this study, we evidenced the need of pharmaceutical attention directed to elderly aiming at a posterior constructing of a situation state and intervening when necessary.

Resumen pt: Os idosos pertencem a uma parcela da populacao que necessita de servico de atencao farmaceutica com enfoque na promocao do uso racional de medicamentos,...

Pregnancy in adolescence almost always occurs in an unexpected way. Many end up as induced abortion. The adolescents use medicines or teas as methods that can lead to abortion, congenital abnormalities, complications or even, death. The study aimed at identifying and analyzing the use of abortive medicines or other substances by adolescents; identifying also their motives for using them, their instruction degree and evaluating their knowledge level of the substances or medicines applied as abortive practice. It was a cross-sectional, descriptive, observational and qualitative study with a quantitative approach, in which a questionnaire was applied to forty adolescents, between 13 to 21 years old, randomly chosen at the Núcleo de Atenção Médica Integrada – NAMI gynecological prevention attendance and at its pediatric ambulatory, in the period of September 22 to October 10, 2003. The results showed that all the interviewed adolescents were literate. Among the interviewed young, ten related having used some substance or medicine to induce the abortion or to induce the menstrual cycle, for being pregnant or with suspicion of pregnancy. In the study, substances such as artificial grape juice, by itself or associated with “cachaça” and “pílula do mato”; the teas of kingdom pepper, “carrapicho”, “boa noite” and “quebra-pedra”; menstrual cycle regulators available in pharmacies and misoprostol, were refereed. Misoprostol continues to be used by the population, even after the great publicizing of its toxic effects and high rate of incomplete abortion.

The teacher / student interaction is based on a professional and human interrelation, founded on respect and ethics and on the understanding that the student is not a passive subject in the process of learning. He / she brings a range of knowledge and allows a mutual exchange of practices by means of which the teacher builds his / her intellect day-by- day. This study aims at emphasizing the relevant points within this interrelation as well as the teacher social role. The teacher constitutes the cross beam in the process of building the student’s character, a process that must be developed by means of a combined experimentation. The educational activities, for their turn, must be centered in the students’ abilities, expectations, interests, opportunities, possibilities and learning conditions. Motivation is the teaching and learning master spring in order to achieve the main objectives in education that are the sedimentation of the previous knowledge, the correction of the distortions and the acquisition of new knowledge.