[Analysis of over-the-counter medicines’ information and strategies oriented to the community for improving its access and quality.].

Introduction: The Disposición ANMAT 753/2012 states definitions and guidelines about the information that inserts and labels must include in nonprescription drugs (also known as over-the-counter or OTC drugs).

Aim: Aims: to analyze the adequacy to the norm in a sample of OTC drugs; promote and disseminate strategic viable actions for being developed by pharmacists to improve the patient’s information. formulated.

[Strategies to foster an adequate compromise of the pharmacist with respect to over the counter medicines’ advertisement.].

The advertisement has a great influence on the public and, in over the counter medicines (OTC), it can generate health risks on the population if it is misregulated. The aim of this work is to analyze and disclose strategic viable actions emerged from a forum debate during an online course for fostering the pharmacist’s compromise related to OTC advertisement. Methods: A content analysis was carried on, grouping by themes and categories the opinions of community pharmacists participating in a forum debate about OTC advertisement.