Pharmacists in the Wider Public Health Workforce – A Review
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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates a critical shortage of more than 4 million health care workers. Though pharmacists represent the third largest healthcare professional group in the world, they are underestimated and underutilized in many developing nations including India and China. As they are trained at a critically insufficient scale, their large potential is being wasted and remain untapped. Since the number of medicines available to consumers and their complexity is increasing day by day, the pharmacists should look for steps beyond just compounding and dispensing. Though the community pharmacist’s role in public health (PH) has not well defined, they are certainly not new to PH. Albeit there is an increasing recognition of the contribution that community pharmacy can make to improve the PH, still there is a need to integrate pharmacy into the wider PH workforce.
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A number of countries have recently implemented policies to expand the roles of community pharmacists in order to facilitate coordinated care delivery.
“Recognizing this untapped potential [5,6], a number of countries have recently implemented policies to expand the roles of community pharmacists in order to facilitate coordinated care delivery.”
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- Authors
- Habeeb Ibrahim, A., Jose, D., & Jegan, R.
- Affiliations
- Semler Research Center (India) (IN)
- Venue
- Archives of Pharmacy Practice
- Publisher
- Medknow
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 166
- ISSN
- 2045-080X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2160651939
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 1.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- Archives of Pharmacy Practice (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Pharmacology › Pharmacy and Medical Practices
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Global Health Workforce Issues
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Public Health Policies and Education
- Keywords
- pharmacists, public health workforce, community pharmacy, pharmacist role in public health, health workforce shortage, developing countries
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