Exploring the implications of a needs-based pharmacy education framework modelled on population health: Perspective from a developing country
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Date
2019
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MDPI
Abstract
Globally, health education reform is directing efforts to strengthen the health system
through collaboration between health education and health services. However, collaborative efforts
vary between developed and developing countries as the health needs, economic constraints,
and resource availability differs. In developing countries, resource allocation is weighed in favor
of interventions that will benefit the majority of the population. The question that emerges is:
How could health education, service, and research activities be (re-)aligned to optimize return on
investment for the health system and society at large? This paper proposes a needs-based pharmacy
educational approach by centralizing population health for a developing country like South Africa.
Literature on systems-based approaches to health professional education reform and the global
pharmacy education framework was reviewed. A needs-based pharmacy educational approach, the
population health model which underpins health outcome measurements to gauge an educational
institution’s effectiveness, was contextualized.
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Keywords
Health systems, Pharmacy, Population health, Economic, World Health Organization (WHO)
Citation
Bheekie, A. et al. (2019). Exploring the implications of a needs-based pharmacy education framework modelled on population health: Perspective from a developing country. Pharmacy , 7(3), 116. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy7030116