Pharmacist-Led Interventions in Public Health: A Global Perspective
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Medication Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 505
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social & administrative pharmacy; chronic conditions; pharmacy practice; opioid crisis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Globally, pharmacists remain one of the most accessible health professionals. Due to their clinical knowledge, pharmacists are well-positioned to enhance their scope of practice through the public health lens by caring for patients and initiating interventions. This Special Issue in Pharmacist-Led Interventions in Public Health: a global perspective is focused on the broad spectrum of public health, including prevention studies such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure treatment (PEP), vaccine, vaccine hesitancy, pharmacy driven studies conducted in rural or urban areas, collaborative practice agreement studies. We look forward to receiving your submissions describing pharmacists' role to enhance their visibility in public health by optimizing patient care in the community setting.
To of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Original research
- Protocols to develop intervention studies
- Commentary and opinion manuscripts
- Literature reviews, including rapid, Scopus, and systematic literature reviews
- Interdisciplinary collaboration in public health
- The role of technology in public health, including artificial intelligence
- Interventions in community-based pharmacy
- Population health interventions across the pharmacy practice settings
- Education and training of public health professionals
Dr. David Rhys Axon
Dr. Alina Cernasev
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- public health
- prevention
- interdisciplinary team
- COVID-19 vaccination
- community pharmacy interventions
