Pharmacy Times October 5, 2021
Pharmacists working in the community setting are practicing public health pharmacy practice on a daily basis, but probably just didn’t have a name for it.
What is public health?
Public health means “the health of the many versus the health of the one,” i.e., focusing on the health and wellness of the population rather than the individual patient. It’s distinguishable from clinic medicine because of its emphasis on communicable disease prevention rather than curing disease.
One of the most successful examples of population health in modern medicine is the invention of routine recommended vaccinations for the prevention of communicable diseases. Prior to this modern miracle, thousands of children and adults died every year from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Pharmacists working in the...
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