The registration of the usage of medicinal plants on e-SUS program: a case study in a city in the upper Jequitinhonha Valley

Nadaby De Oliveira Matos,Valéria Cristina Pereira Souza,Bethânia Alves De Avelar Freitas,Marcelo Henrique Fernandes Ottoni,Agnes Batista Meireles,Daniel Almeida Freitas,Gustavo Eustáquio Alvim Brito-Melo,Ana Luísa De Paulo Caldeira

doi:10.1590/2175-7860202071057

Nadaby De Oliveira Matos, Valéria Cristina Pereira Souza + Show 6 more

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-7860202071057

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Abstract The e-SUS is a software used to computerize the health work process in Brazil. Among the population registration data is the record about the use of medicinal plants in Primary Health Care (AB). Thus, our objective was to analyze the records of the e-SUS in a Basic Health Unit (UBS) in the Jequitinhonha Valley and conduct a survey with individuals from the same UBS, where they were asked about the use of medicinal plants. The hypothesis of the study is that although the registration is relevant, the software data underestimate the reality about medicinal plants use. In a survey with 77 users of an UBS randomly selected, 93.5% reported using medicinal plants, while in e-SUS reports only 0.8% of the individuals from the same UBS use medicinal plants. Therefore, the recorded data cannot yet be used to develop medicinal plant policies in the AB. Reliable record of medicinal plant use in e-SUS is still a challenge. It is important to make professionals aware of the benefits of correctly completing the forms for the development of public policies that include what is recommended by the National Medicinal Plants Policy in order to recognize, guide and value the use of medicinal plants.

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Information and communication technologies are inserted in numerous branches of many activities, both in areas of economy, leisure or public service
Considering that the answers of the individual registration forms (IRF) can provide evidence that suports the development of municipal guidelines in accordance with the National Policy of Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapics, the objective of the present study was to analyze the responses regarding the use of medicinal plants registered in a Unidade Básica de Saúde” (UBS) unit in the e-SUS system and compare with a survey performed with the local population, asking them questions about the use of medicinal plants stated in the e-SUS IRF
Less than 1% of 6,564 individual registered the use of medicinal plants in the e-SUS system

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Information and communication technologies are inserted in numerous branches of many activities, both in areas of economy, leisure or public service. The Brazilian Unified Health System “Sistema Único de Saúde” (SUS) offers assistance to more than two hundred million people, at various levels of care. Such a complex and grandiose system requires an accurate management, evaluation and control of its services in order to provide quality health care, allowing a mechanism to collect, process, analyze data and transmit information (Gava et al 2016). In 1998, the Basic Attention Information System “Sistema de Informação da Atenção Básica” (SIAB) was created (Marcolino & Scochi 2010). In July 2013, in the Regulatory Ordinance no 1412, a health care information system for basic care “Sistema de Informação em Saúde para a Atenção Básica” (SISAB) was created. Its operation is based on the e-SUS basic care strategy “e-SUS Atenção Básica” (e-SUS AB), software that computerizes the workflow in basic health care units “Unidade Básica de Saúde” (UBS) and restructures basic care information

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