Rural Pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential
Objective: To investigate the level and perceived quality of health promotion advice received from rural pharmacists.Design: Self-administered written survey on access to and quality of pharmacy services in rural Western Australia completed by rural residents.Setting: Rural Pharmacy.Participants: Fo...
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| author | Sunderland, Bruce Burrows, Suzanne Joyce, Andrew McManus, Alexandra Maycock, Bruce |
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| description | Objective: To investigate the level and perceived quality of health promotion advice received from rural pharmacists.Design: Self-administered written survey on access to and quality of pharmacy services in rural Western Australia completed by rural residents.Setting: Rural Pharmacy.Participants: Four hundred and eighty-three respondents who regularly used a pharmacy.Outcome measures: Items in the survey included frequency of receiving prevention advice and satisfaction ratings on health and pharmacy services.Results: Eighty-eight per cent of respondents had never discussed exercise or diet with their pharmacist and 65% had never discussed preventing health problems. Receiving good prevention advice predicted satisfaction with health services in general but not satisfaction with pharmacy services.Conclusion: Pharmacies are being underutilised with respect to their capacity to deliver heath prevention advice and ways to capitalise on this potential need to be investigated. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-50842019-02-19T05:35:28Z Rural Pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential Sunderland, Bruce Burrows, Suzanne Joyce, Andrew McManus, Alexandra Maycock, Bruce rural pharmacy prevention frequency advice Objective: To investigate the level and perceived quality of health promotion advice received from rural pharmacists.Design: Self-administered written survey on access to and quality of pharmacy services in rural Western Australia completed by rural residents.Setting: Rural Pharmacy.Participants: Four hundred and eighty-three respondents who regularly used a pharmacy.Outcome measures: Items in the survey included frequency of receiving prevention advice and satisfaction ratings on health and pharmacy services.Results: Eighty-eight per cent of respondents had never discussed exercise or diet with their pharmacist and 65% had never discussed preventing health problems. Receiving good prevention advice predicted satisfaction with health services in general but not satisfaction with pharmacy services.Conclusion: Pharmacies are being underutilised with respect to their capacity to deliver heath prevention advice and ways to capitalise on this potential need to be investigated. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5084 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2006.00774.x Blackwell Publishing fulltext |
| spellingShingle | rural pharmacy prevention frequency advice Sunderland, Bruce Burrows, Suzanne Joyce, Andrew McManus, Alexandra Maycock, Bruce Rural Pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential |
| title | Rural Pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential |
| title_full | Rural Pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential |
| title_fullStr | Rural Pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural Pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential |
| title_short | Rural Pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential |
| title_sort | rural pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential |
| topic | rural pharmacy prevention frequency advice |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5084 |