Abstract
The mapping of behaviors towards the use of medicines informs the conditions under which a pharmacological treatment is implemented. However, the location of medication adherence as a clinical problem evokes well-demarcated place as to the procedures for its explanation and resolution. In this sense, this work aims to problematize the founding elements of the study of medication adherence, considering that such practice is hegemonically assimilated only by scientific and biological parameters, without the inclusion of an approach directed to the patients' historical and cultural specificities. In this way, the primacy of delimitation and explanation of reality is transferred to the analyst. However, the field work showed a diversity of attitudes and management of medicines, capable of indicating that the geography of care is not oriented only from a linear path, but is supported by wandering and itinerant spaces, installing in a paradoxical field that mixes reproduction and creation.
Keywords:
Medication adherence Pharmaceutical care; Patient compliance; Medication therapy management.