Introduction to Social Pharmacy

Social pharmacy is a multidisciplinary field that applies social, humanistic, and natural sciences to promote the adequate use of medicine.

Social pharmacy is defined as the science dealing with the social aspects of the profession of pharmacy.

Knowledge from humanistic and social services is important in social pharmacy because practicing pharmacy is carried out among human beings who are connected with families, organizations, and health systems.

<p>Social pharmacy, as a discipline, needs to be supplemented with knowledge from disciplines dealing with people and systems to ensure a comprehensive understanding of medication use.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social pharmacy focuses on promoting the adequate use of medicine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social pharmacy contributes to the profession of pharmacy by studying medications from social, scientific, and humanistic perspectives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Beliefs, attitudes, rules, relationships, and processes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social, scientific, and humanistic perspectives</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Promote adequate use of medicine, create awareness about health skills, knowledge, and attitude, encourage public to take benefits of health services, provide information and create awareness, promote healthy habits, provide knowledge on nutrients, and impart knowledge on first aid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>New expensive medicine, unequal access to medicines worldwide, strive for shared decision making, increased self-medication in developed world, changing role of pharmacies and pharmacists in society, and increasing use of medicines in developed countries and emerging markets</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Patient education and counselling, participation in management of medical emergencies, drug use review, reporting adverse drug reactions, medication administration control, participation in research, preparation of medication histories, and monitoring drug therapy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Supply of fresh air, light, and potable water, balanced diet, proper healthful shelter, adequate clothing, hygienic environmental sanitation</p> Signup and view all the answers