Automedicação no Ensino de Química: uma proposta interdisciplinar para o Ensino Médio

Abstract

The self-medication in Chemistry education: an interdisciplinary proposal to secondary school) Self-medication is a common practice for the Brazilian population, and because of its consequences, it has been treated as a public health problem in Brazil, since it is linked to the various reasons why a person decides to take a drug to reduce symptoms or cure a disease. For chemistry education, it is a social issue that can assist the process of teaching and learning, in addition to forming the student for citizenship. In this work we present three proposals for linking the contents of chemistry with self-medication social issue, based on the methodological proposal of Scientific and Technological Literacy, called Interdisciplinary Island of Rationality. Each proposal presents possibilities for contextualization and association between contents of chemistry and social, economic, cultural and political aspects, as well as other school subjects. In this perspective, the approach of formal content issues with those related to self-medication provides the construction of ideas about the benefits and harms caused by this practice.

Intoxicação exógena por medicamentos na população jovem do Rio Grande do Sul

“…4 Este consumo elevado de medicamentos já é considerado um hábito no cotidiano da população, podendo estar relacionado ao uso abusivo, bem como a aspectos individuais e sociais, ou também com a tentativa de suicídio em alguns casos. 5 A indústria farmacêutica tem crescido muito nos últimos anos, desenvolvendo novos produtos e realizando importantes mudanças no aspecto de utilização de medicamentos em esfera mundial. Com a grande variedade de medicamentos disponíveis no mercado brasileiro, surgem também, problemas relacionados com estes produtos.…”