Pharmaceutical services in primary health care. Quality of life challenges

Introduction: During the last years of the 20th century, the functions and processes linked to medication logistics were perfected and strengthened, however, policies aimed at the rational use of medications and actions to implement all the measures were implemented much more slowly. processes aimed at patients, which are developed in pharmaceutical services. An objective always present in all these practices is to achieve the role of the pharmacist in health services, with emphasis on its importance in helping to satisfy the social need for effective and safe health care. Objective: Detail the action of the pharmacist and primary health care in pharmaceutical services in Cuba and the need for a paradigm shift. Methods: A descriptive study of bibliographic searches was carried out, for which primary and secondary sources of information in the medical newspaper library and various information centers were used, in indexed journals on the topic of pharmaceutical services. The sample was defined by scientific articles, degree theses and manuals in databases such as Google Scholar, Medline and Scielo related to Pharmaceutical Care topics; OPS, Pharmaceutical Services, in Spanish and English. Conclusions: pharmaceutical services must transform ways of working based on the guidance of the WHO/PAHO, improving themselves professionally to achieve the objectives set in relation to the integration of the pharmaceutical professional into the work of the health team in Primary Health Care (PHC).