Uso de antibióticos prescritos na saúde pública: revisão integrativa

Abstract

Antibiotics are drugs that have been developed to fight bacteria. However, these drugs have been used improperly, having as a consequence the increase the bacterial resistance to antibiotics. In the Unified Health System, this class of drugs is selected through National List of Essential Medicines, to serve priority health needs of the Brazilian population. This work had with the objective to evaluate the use of prescribed antibiotics in public health described in the literature and implementation of policies to control their use. The data collected for this study were obtained through the electronic databases Google acadêmico, National Library of Medicine (PubMed) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo) between the years 2014 and 2019, using the descriptors: public health, drug prescriptions, bacterial resistance and antibiotic, resulting in the 289 scientific articles, where 14 met the inclusion criterion, pointing out difficulties in public health related to prescription drugs. In this sense, it was observed through the studies that the prescriptions in the Unified Health System are, for the most part, defaulting, leading to bacterial resistance and, although there is much talk about bacterial resistance in the world, little is found in the literature regarding strategies this problem.