The Role of Community Pharmacists in Public Health II
A special issue of Pharmacy (ISSN 2226-4787). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacy Practice and Practice-Based Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 11807
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Interests: public health; medicines optimisation; patient care; mobile health; pharmacy services; patient education; telehealth; patient experience; healthcare education
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Dear Colleagues,
It is a known fact that community pharmacists are one of the most frequently visited healthcare professionals, and that community pharmacies are the first port of call for the general public. Pharmacy has undergone remarkable changes, and community pharmacists have made an effort to expand their traditional role of dispensing medication by providing more patient-oriented and public health-related interventions. Community pharmacies now offer a range of services in relation to health promotion and disease prevention, such as smoking cessation, weight management, and vaccinations. They also offer services for health improvement which focus on medication adherence and optimising medicines use for long-term conditions, and play a role in disease screening and early detection.
Community pharmacists were the only healthcare professionals who were still open for face to face consultations to the public under social isolation during the COVID- 19 pandemic. With the great recognition of the role of pharmacists in this period, the extra demand placed on them provides an opportunity to identify new working models for this accessible healthcare team in the community while ensuring the reach of their services. Technological advances may offer a solution for service delivery and therefore potentially expand the reach of community pharmacy through the use of virtual consultations.
We invite you to share your experiences, evaluations, innovations, or any service evaluation or research you have undertaken in relation to the role of community pharmacists in all dimensions of public health from disease prevention and early screening to health improvement pre or post COVID-19. We hope this Special Issue will inspire pharmacists and researchers to share their own practices and adopt new approaches and innovate to make improvements in public health provision.
Prof. Dr. Reem Kayyali
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- public health
- health promotion
- health protection
- community pharmacy
- community pharmacists
- patients’ perceptions
- public perceptions
- pharmacy services
- digital health
- well-being
- screening
- health improvement
- cost-effectiveness
- evidence
- disease prevention
- adherence
- medicines optimisation
- medicines
- COVID-19
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