Pharmacy Practice

Edited by 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.

Section I: The Development and Practice of Pharmacy 1. The Historical Context of Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice 2. Pharmacy and Public Health Policy 3. Hospital Pharmacy 4. Community Pharmacy in Europe 5. Pharmacy in North America 6. Pharmacy in New Zealand and Australia 7. Pharmacy in Developing Countries Section II: Health, Illness, Well-Being and Medicines Use 8. The Social Context of Health and Illness 9. Inequalities in Health and Health Care 10. Promoting Health 11. Compliance, Adherence and Concordance Section III: Professional Practice 12. Occupational Status of Pharmacy 13. Duty of Care, Professionalism, Ethics and Ethical Dilemmas 14. The Pharmacy Workforce 15. Pharmacists and the Multidisciplinary Health Care Team 16. Pharmaceutical and Health Care Needs of Older People and Their Carers 17. Pharmaceutical and Health Care Needs of People with Mental Health Problems 18. Pharmaceutical and Health Care Needs of Ethnic Groups 19. Pharmaceutical and Health Care Needs of Injecting Drug Users Section IV: Measuring and Costing Medicines Use 20. Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology 21. Health Economics Section V: Undertaking Pharmacy Practice and Health Services Research 22. Survey Methods 23. Interviews 24. Focus Groups 25. Analysing Qualitative Data 26. Measuring Health and Illness 27. Evaluating Pharmacy Services 28. Principles of Statistical Data Analysis