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Professional values in community and public health pharmacy.
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PMID:  20803257     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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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.
Authors:
David Badcott
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Medicine, health care, and philosophy     Volume:  14     ISSN:  1572-8633     ISO Abbreviation:  Med Health Care Philos     Publication Date:  2011 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-04-20     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9815900     Medline TA:  Med Health Care Philos     Country:  Netherlands    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  187-94     Citation Subset:  E; IM    
Affiliation:
Centre for Applied Ethics, Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, UK, badcottd@cf.ac.uk.
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