The Role of the Pharmacist in the Health Care System
(1994; 60 pages)

Table of Contents

PART I: THE ROLE OF THE PHARMACIST IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
	Participants
	Acknowledgements
	1. Introduction
	2. Manpower imbalances in pharmacy
	3. The knowledge and expertise of pharmacists
	4. The scope of pharmacy and the functions of pharmacists
		4.1 Regulatory control and drug management
		4.2 Community pharmacy
		4.3 Hospital pharmacy
		4.4 Industrial pharmacy (the pharmaceutical industry)
		4.5 Academic activities
		4.6 Training other health care workers
	5. Pharmacy manpower development for health care systems
		5.1 Manpower planning
		5.2 The pharmacist in the health team
		5.3 Undergraduate education in pharmacy
		5.4 Undergraduate education related to the pharmacist’s role in the rational use of drugs
		5.5 Postgraduate education and research
		5.6 Manpower management
		5.7 Continuing education as an aspect of manpower management
	6. Monitoring of pharmacy manpower development
	7. Recommendations
		7.1 The scope of pharmacy and the functions of pharmacists
		7.2 Pharmacy manpower development for health care systems
		7.3 Follow-up action on the report
	References
PART II: THE ROLE OF THE PHARMACIST: QUALITY PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES - BENEFITS FOR GOVERNMENTS AND THE PUBLIC
	Introduction
	Pharmaceutical care
	Aspects of pharmaceutical care
	Recommendations

The Role of the Pharmacist in the Health Care System

Report of a WHO Consultative Group
New Delhi, India
13-16 December 1988

Report of a WHO Meeting
Tokyo, Japan
31 August-3 September 1993

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE

WHO/PHARM/94.569
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Original: English

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