Natural and Traditional Medicine at the primary level of care. Actions for its strengthening, Pinar del Río (2017)
Keywords:
Natural and Traditional Medicine, therapy, Primary health careAbstract
Introduction: The proper use of Natural and Traditional Medicine allows professionals to expand the scientific horizon in an integrative way.
Objective: To identify the elements that affect the practice of Natural and Traditional Medicine, and actions to favor its use in the primary level of care of the municipality of Pinar del Río.
Methods: It was an observational, descriptive study, from May 2016 to July 2017, in the four polyclinics of the Pinar del Río municipality. A diagnosis was made that allowed the elaboration of the action plan to strengthen the use of Natural and Traditional Medicine. The study universe considered the doctors and professors of the Basic Working Group (N006). The sample selection (n= 234), was carried out through sampling by authority criteria.
Results: Specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine predominated, with more than five years of experience, 30.3% do not use the MNT, 67.9% consider it useful, 58.8% recognize its effectiveness, the most used modality was Phytotherapy (69.6%), 43.2% and 38.9% respectively consider the supply of natural products and their acceptance by the population as regular. 83.3% considered the Pharmacotherapeutic Committee the space for analyzing indicators of Natural and Traditional Medicine. An action plan was designed using these techniques, focusing on six axes of fundamental activities and 23 tasks.
Conclusions: The main identified elements that stop the use of Traditional and Natural Medicine, due to its modifiable nature, are vulnerable to change, with the proposed action plan.
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