Pharmacy Practice discusses the many factors impinging on daily practice and the place of pharmacy in the delivery of health care. The book goes beyond simply considering how pharmacy is practised and draws on a diverse range of disciplines, including sociology, social policy, psychology, anthropology, history and health economics, with each contributor bringing a unique perspective and insight into that practice.
In this fully updated edition, the content and presentation have been thoroughly revised and new material added to reflect the many changes that have occurred in the last edition, particularly in pharmacy and health policy and professional regulation and development. The book provides the background and context for issues currently impacting professional practice and which will determine how pharmacy will develop in the future.
THE DEVELOPMENT AND PRACTICE OF PHARMACY
The Historical Context of Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice
Stuart Anderson
Pharmacy and Public Health Policy
David Taylor, Zahraa Mohammed Ali and James Davies
Hospital Pharmacy
Michael Wilcock and Joanna Lawrence
Community Pharmacy in Europe
J. W. Foppe van Mil
Pharmacy in North America
Qian Ding, Albert I. Wertheimer and Joaquima Serradell
Pharmacy in New Zealand and Australia
Pauline Norris, Alesha Smith and Rhiannon Braund
Pharmacy in Developing Countries
Felicity Smith
HEALTH, ILLNESS, WELL-BEING AND MEDICINES USE
The Social Context of Health and Illness
Sarah Nettleton
Inequalities in Health and Health Care
Mark Exworthy
Promoting Health
Alison Blenkinsopp, Claire Anderson and Rhona Panton
Compliance, Adherence and Concordance
Robert Horne
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Occupational Status of Pharmacy
Geoffrey Harding and Kevin Taylor
Duty of Care, Professionalism, Ethics and Ethical Dilemmas
Dai N. John and Richard O’Neill
The Pharmacy Workforce
Karen Hassell and Sue Symonds
Pharmacists and the Multidisciplinary Health Care Team
Christine Bond
Pharmaceutical and Health Care Needs of Older People and Their Carers
Nina Barnett and Ruth Goldstein
Pharmaceutical and Health Care Needs of People with Mental Health Problems
Sally-Anne Francis
Pharmaceutical and Health Care Needs of Ethnic Groups
Mohamed Aslam, Farheen Jessa and John Wilson
Pharmaceutical and Health Care Needs of Injecting Drug Users
Janie Sheridan and Jenny Scott
MEASURING AND COSTING MEDICINES USE
Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology
Corinne de Vries and Lolkje de Jong-van den Berg
Health Economics
Hakan Brodin
UNDERTAKING PHARMACY PRACTICE AND HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
Survey Methods
Jill K. Jesson and Rob Pocock
Interviews
Madeleine Gantley
Focus Groups
Felicity Smith
Analysing Qualitative Data
Geoffrey Harding, Madeleine Gantley and Kevin Taylor
Measuring Health and Illness
Sally-Anne Francis
Evaluating Pharmacy Services
Felicity Smith
Principles of Statistical Data Analysis
Nick Barber
Biography
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Geoffrey Harding, BSc, PhD, is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Exeter School of Medicine in the UK. A social scientist by background, Dr. Harding has taught the social context of health and health care to undergraduate and postgraduate vocational students from medicine, nursing and pharmacy. He has served as external examiner for a number of schools of medicine and pharmacy and has an extensive portfolio of research in primary care, bringing a social scientific perspective to the management of musculoskeletal chronic pain and to pharmaceutical service delivery.
Kevin Taylor, BPharm, PhD, FRPharmS, is a professor of clinical pharmaceutics at UCL School of Pharmacy in the UK. Professor Taylor has more than 25 years’ experience in teaching and research in the areas of pharmacy practice, formulation science and medicines manufacture and dispensing. He has been actively involved in curriculum design and teaching across all four years of the MPharm degree as well as MSc and PhD programmes. Professor Taylor has also been external examiner for a number of MPharm programmes in the UK.
"Healthcare in general has changed to a more interdisciplinary model, and this book helps readers understand the various contexts in which pharmacy is practiced. Students and pharmacists wishing to gain an understanding of issues currently impacting the profession will find this book most useful."
—Michael C. Barros, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, BC-ADM, Doody’s Book Reviews