Sistema Nacional de Inovação em Saúde: um estudo dos movimentos governamentais recentes na área de fitoterápicos / National System of Innovation in Health: a study of recent governmental movements in the area of phytotherapy
The present study is a descriptive study of the National Innovation System (SNI) in health focused on the recent governmental movements (from year 2006) related to the promotion of innovation in Phytotherapeutics and Phytopharmaceuticals. Within the scope of the Federal Government, the approval of the National Policy of Medicinal and Phytotherapeutic Plants, through Presidential Decree nº. 5.813, of June 22, 2006, constitutes an essential part of public health policies, providing a basis for later formulation of the National Program of Medicinal and Phytotherapeutic Plants. (2008) In view of the objectives of the present work, there are also theoretical presentations besides a brief historical retrospective of the Brazilian SNI and the adjustments and their recent characteristics. The International Panorama shows an evolution without consumption to the countries in relation to Brazil and as governmental initiatives like the National Policy of Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapeutics and the National Program of Plants Medicines and Herbal Medicine, point to a possible correction in the technological backwardness of the country in the health sector And the consolidation of an SNI in relation to the insertion of Phytotherapeutics. The federal government's policies in recent years have shown positive experiences such as the increase in scientific production and the training of human resources and the possibility of developing the innovation system in the field of herbal medicines, becoming a need for interaction between research and development to Innovation in new products and stimulation of production on an industrial scale.(AU)