ATENDIMENTO INDIVIDUALIZADO E LETRAMENTO EM SAÚDE: ESTRATÉGIAS PARA O MANEJO DA MULTIMORBIDADE
ATENDIMENTO INDIVIDUALIZADO E LETRAMENTO EM SAÚDE: ESTRATÉGIAS PARA O MANEJO DA MULTIMORBIDADE
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.578132608056
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Palavras-chave: Multimorbidade; Cuidado Centrado na Pessoa; Letramento em Saúde; Atenção Primária à Saúde.
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Keywords: Multimorbidity; Person-Centered Care; Health Literacy; Primary Health Care.
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Abstract: Multimorbidity, understood as the coexistence of two or more chronic conditions in the same individual, challenges care models organized around isolated diseases, rigid protocols, and episodic consultations. When combined with polypharmacy, fragmentation of care, social vulnerability, and low health literacy, it increases the treatment burden and compromises autonomy, safety, and quality of life. This narrative review analyzes the relationship between individualized care, person-centered care, and health literacy as a strategy to improve care for people with comorbidities. Studies, systematic reviews, international guidelines, and institutional documents published mainly in the last decade were prioritized, with the inclusion of classic references when essential to the conceptual foundation. The synthesis indicates that individualized care should shift the focus from the sum of diagnoses to the person within their context, combining multidimensional assessment, shared definition of priorities, critical review of therapy, interprofessional coordination, and communication adapted to the patient’s level of understanding. Health literacy, in turn, should not be treated solely as an individual attribute, but also as an organizational responsibility of health services, which must make their information, routines, and decisions more understandable and navigable. It is concluded that the integration of multimorbidity, person-centered care, and health literacy constitutes an ethical, clinical, and public health response to reduce treatment burden, improve adherence, strengthen self-management, and produce care plans that are more realistic, safe, and aligned with patients’ life goals.
- Larissa Cordeiro Diniz
- Victoria Rocha Freitas
- Judson Bandeira Filgueira da Costa
- Jadeilton de Araújo Ferreira
- Izabel Marques Feitoza de Araújo
- Ronaldo Cavalcante Santana
- Hyraildes Nogueira Silva Neta
- Dennyse ellen de Freitas
- Matheus Rocha Luz
- Paulo Roberto Barbosa de Souza