Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes

Steed, Liz; Sohanpal, Ratna; Todd, Adam; Madurasinghe, Vichithranie; Rivas, Carol; Edwards, Elizabeth; Summerbell, Carolyn; Taylor, Stephanie J C

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd011207.pub2

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“…8 By extension, if the theory and practice of pharmacy adopted planetary health as a core aspect of the curriculum, this would allow the discipline to advocate a range of health promoting behaviors, focused on nutrition and diet, which would aim to improve health and optimize the management of long term conditions. 9 In order to make this aspect of health promotion actionable in pharmacies, the curriculum of pharmacists should also include tools of social marketing which would allow messaging on topics such as diet and nutrition to be tailored to align with international suggestions, present health risks in an understandable manner, and adjust the campaign to improve its effectiveness. 10…”

Section: Nutrition and Dietmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pharmacist Rethink through a Planetary Health Lens

Maharaj

Moonilal

Jankie

et al. 2021

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Planetary Health is a rapidly developing field that is gaining momentum and significance as the world grapples with the devastating effects of infectious diseases, climate change, biodiversity loss, complex food insecurities, and international competition for resources. These challenges are often attributable to the financial activity made by nation states and increasing disposable individual wealth. The outcomes have created a perfect storm of events that, if not managed properly, threatens the health of current and future generations. Given the front-line role pharmacists play within health system in the community and institutional levels, the profession is uniquely positioned to make a meaningful impact to planetary health. This article aims to explore contributions pharmacists can make to secure planetary health.

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Section: Nutrition and Dietmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pharmacist Rethink through a Planetary Health Lens

Maharaj

Moonilal

Jankie

et al. 2021

INQUIRY

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“…As farmácias comunitárias têm sido o principal local de atuação do farmacêutico e representa o estabelecimento de saúde de mais fácil acesso à população. 5 Neste contexto, este profissional desempenha papel essencial na promoção do uso qualificado do medicamento, buscando otimizar os benefícios e minimizar os danos na utilização desta tecnologia.…”

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Experiências de usuários de um centro de informação de medicamentos sobre a atuação do profissional farmacéutico

Torres¹,

Fonseca²,

Cândido³

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Rev Bras Farm Hosp Serv Saude

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Objetivo: Descrever as atividades realizadas pelo profissional farmacêutico de acordo com experiências de usuários (público não especializado e farmacêuticos) de um Centro de Informação sobre Medicamentos. Métodos: Estudo transversal com farmacêuticos e usuários de medicamentos que utilizam o Serviço de Informação do Centro de Estudos do Medicamento da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Cemed/UFMG). Os participantes responderam a um questionário eletrônico, enviando informações sobre dados sociodemográficos próprios, sobre a atuação do farmacêutico e sobre experiências com uso e execução dos serviços farmacêuticos. Os dados foram analisados de forma descritiva por meio de frequências absolutas e relativas e alguns relatos dos participantes foram apresentados para contextualização das análises. Resultados: 156 participantes responderam ao questionário. A maioria dos usuários de medicamentos, 58 (72,2%), informou que havia tido alguma experiência de orientação do farmacêutico acerca do uso de medicamentos, sendo a indicação, 28 (34,6%) e, orientações sobre a administração de medicamentos, 23 (28,4%), as principais intervenções relatadas. A maioria dos farmacêuticos, 26 (96,3%), relatou a realização de pelo menos uma intervenção. Destas, 20 (74,1%) foram realizadas no local de trabalho do profissional e as demais foram orientações técnicas a familiares ou amigos. Orientações sobre administração correta de medicamentos, 10 (37%) foram as principais intervenções realizadas pelos farmacêuticos. Conclusão: A dispensação de medicamentos foi apontada como frequentemente acompanhada pela orientação sobre o uso ou questões de saúde realizadas pelo farmacêutico. O reconhecimento da contribuição da atuação deste profissional para a obtenção de melhores resultados em saúde respalda sua importância nas drogarias e farmácias, principais estabelecimentos de atuação deste profissional e de grande alcance da população.

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“…These innovations in pharmacy practice services and the pharmacy professionals who provide those services are now recognized as a key resource of the healthcare system for the promotion of safe and rational use of drugs. 1 Such service innovations usually include complex multidimensional interventions provided through educational, attitudinal, or behavioral actions. 2 , 3 …”

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Principles of pharmacoeconomic analysis: the case of pharmacist-led interventions

Tonin

Aznar-Lou

Pontinha

et al. 2021

Pharm Pract (Granada)

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In the past years, several factors such as evidence-based healthcare culture, quality-linked incentives, and patient-centered actions, associated with an important increase of financial constraints and pressures on healthcare budgets, resulted in a growing interest by policy-makers in enlarging pharmacists’ roles in care. Numerous studies have demonstrated positive therapeutic outcomes associated with pharmaceutical services in a wide array of diseases. Yet, the evidence of the economic impact of the pharmacist in decreasing total health expenditures, unnecessary care, and societal costs relies on well-performed, reliable, and transparent economic evaluations, which are scarce. Pharmacoeconomics is a branch of health economics that usually focuses on balancing the costs and benefits of an intervention towards the use of limited resources, aiming at maximizing value to patients, healthcare payers and society through data driven decision making. These decisions can be guide by a health technology assessment (HTA) process that inform governmental players about medical, social, and economic implications of development, diffusion, and use of health technologies – including clinical pharmacy interventions. This paper aims to provide an overview of the important concepts in costing in healthcare, including studies classification according to the type of analysis method (e.g. budget-impact analysis, cost-minimization analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis), types of costs (e.g. direct, indirect and intangible costs) and outcomes (e.g. events prevented, quality adjusted life year - QALY, disability adjusted life year - DALY). Other key components of an economic evaluation such as the models’ perspective, time horizon, modelling approaches (e.g. decision trees or simulation models as the Markov model) and sensitivity analysis are also briefly covered. Finally, we discuss the methodological issues for the identification, measurement and valuation of costs and benefits of pharmacy services, and suggest some recommendations for future studies, including the use of Value of Assessment Frameworks.

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Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes

Abstract: Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes.

Cited by 45 publications

References 222 publications

Pharmacist Rethink through a Planetary Health Lens

Pharmacist Rethink through a Planetary Health Lens

Experiências de usuários de um centro de informação de medicamentos sobre a atuação do profissional farmacéutico

Principles of pharmacoeconomic analysis: the case of pharmacist-led interventions

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