
Social and Administrative Aspects of Pharmacy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Present Challenges and Future Solutions
Description
Key Features
- Examines key issues and challenges of pharmacy practice and the pharmaceutical sector specific to low- and middle-income countries
- Compares pharmacy practice in developed and developing countries to highlight the unique challenges and opportunities of each
- Provides a blueprint for the future of pharmacy in low- and middle-income countries, including patient-centered care, evidence-based care and promoting the role of the pharmacist for primary health care in these settings
Readership
Practicing pharmacists, pharmacy leaders in academic and practice sites, pharmacy educators, researchers in social and administrative pharmacy, researchers in pharmacy practice and education, pharmacy graduate students, consultants, international pharmaceutical companies, human resource departments in pharmacy practices, public health policy makers, international medicine use organizations, international organizations concerned with health (e.g. WHO, United Nations, etc.)
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Discovering Issues and Challenges in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim and Albert I. WertheimerSection I: Socio-behavioral Aspects of Medicines Used in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
2. Socio-Behavioral Aspects of Medicine Used in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Mukhtar Ansari3. Patients’, Consumers’ and Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions, Beliefs, Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Towards the Use of Medicines
Kazeem Babatunde Yusuff4. The Use of Measurements and Health Behavioral Models to Improve Medication Adherence
Yara Arafat and Mohamed Izham Mohamed IbrahimSection II: Pharmaceutical Promotion in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
5. Academic Detailing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Principles, Use, Impact and Lessons Learned
Saval KhanalSection III: Economic Evaluation and Medicine Expenditure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
6. Economic Evaluation and Medicine Expenditure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Gianluigi Casadei and Paola Minghetti7. Medicine Pricing Policy and Strategies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review
Nada Moustafa and Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim8. Economic Evaluation of Predominant Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Diabetes Mellitus
Asrul Akmal ShafieSection IV: Pharmacovigilance and Patient Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
9. Pharmacovigilance Practices and Activities: Issues, Challenges, and Future Direction
Subish Palaian10. Behavioral Aspects of Pharmacovigilance: Research Methods Considerations
Vibhu Paudyal11. Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Pharmacovigilance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Dixon Thomas and Seeba ZachariahSection V: Generic Medicines Used in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
12. Overcoming Challenges of Generic Medicine Utilization in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Lessons Learned from International Experiences
Mohamed Azmi Hassali and Zhi Yen Wong13. Assessment of Policies, Determinants and Characteristics of Generic Medicine Entry into the Pharmaceutical Markets
Omotayo FatokunSection VI: Rational and Responsible Medicine Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
14. Misconceptions and Misues of Drugs by Prescribers, Dispensers and Consumers
Pathiyil Ravi Shankar15. Strengths and Weaknesses of Pharmaceutical Policy in Relation to Rational and Responsible Medicines Use
Tuan Anh Nguyen and Elizabeth E. Roughead16. Rational and Responsible Medicines Use
Arjun Poudel and Lisa M. NissenSection VII: Quality of Public Health Pharmacy Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
17. Quality of Pharmacy Health Services
Saira Azhar and Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim18. Assessment of Medicine Dispensing and Extended Community Pharmacy Services
Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim19. Enhancing Quality of Patient-Centered Care Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Pharmaceutical Care Approach
Dinesh Kumar Upadhyay and Ooi Guat See20. Politics and Competition between Professions: Future Scope of Pharmacy Practice
Yu Fang and Kangkang YanSection VIII: Medicine Quality: Substandard and Counterfeit Medicine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
21. Perspective, Knowledge, Attitude, and Belief of Various Stakeholders on Medicines Quality: Counterfeit and Substandard Medicines
Abubakr Abdelraouf AlfadlSection IX: Medicine Information and Health Literacy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
22. Issues on Source, Access, Extent and Quality of Information Available Among Pharmacists and Pharmacy Personnel to Practice Effectively
Ahmed Ibrahim FathelrahmanSection X: Good Governance and Pharmaceutical Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
23. Problems and Obstacles of Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Having Good Governance and Quality and Effective Pharmaceutical Policy
Sonak D. Pastakia, Benson N. Njuguna and Dan N. Tran24. Pharmacogovernance: Advancing Pharmacovigilance and Patient Safety
Kathy Moscou and Jillian C. Kohler25. Pharmaceutical Policy: Synthesis, Themes and Future Directions
Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar and Shane L. Scahill
Product details
- No. of pages: 484
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: October 24, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128112298
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128112281
About the Editors
Mohamed Izham Ibrahim
Affiliations and Expertise
Albert Wertheimer
Dr. Wertheimer has lectured or consulted in about 70 countries. He received the research achievement award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, is a fellow of the International Pharmacy Federation (FIP) and is a Scheele Laureat from the Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is peer reviewer for about 20 journals and on the editorial board of three. He holds adjunct appointments at Pharmacy faculties in Malta, China, Turkey, Taiwan. Slovenia, and Mexico. Currently, he is working in the area of health policy analysis.
Affiliations and Expertise
Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
Affiliations and Expertise
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