Professional values in community and public health pharmacy

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 14 (2):187-194 (2011)
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Abstract

General practice (community) pharmacy as a healthcare profession is largely devoted to therapeutic treatment of individual patients whether in dispensing medically authorised prescriptions or by providing members of the public with over-the-counter advice and service for a variety of common ailments. Recently, community pharmacy has been identified as an untapped resource available to undertake important aspects of public health and in particular health promotion. In contrast to therapeutic treatment, public health primarily concerns the health of the entire population, rather than the health of individuals (Childress et al. in J Law Med Ethics 30:170–178, 2002). Thus, an important question for the profession is whether those moral and professional values that are appropriate to the therapeutic care of individual patients are relevant and adequate to support the additional public health role

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Professional values: introduction to the theme. [REVIEW]David Badcott - 2011 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 14 (2):185-186.

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