Health Promotion Flashcards
1
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Discuss pharmacist’ contribution to public health
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essential services
- provide opportunistic advice on healthy living
- pharmacies will participate in 6 campaigns
- undertake prescription linked interventions
Advanced services
- medicine use review MUR
- new medicine service NMS
Enhanced services
-drug misuse services
2
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Describe the RPS professional standards for public health
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- Surveillance and assessment of the populations health and well-being
- Public health intelligence
- Assessing the evidence
- Health improvement
- Health protection
- Health and social service quality
- Policy and strategy
- Strategic leadership
3
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Discuss the HP requirements of being a healthy living pharmacist
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- a pharmacy that consistently delivers a range of health and well-being services to high quality
- has appointed a healthy living champion
- has appropriately equipped consultation room
- provides healthy leaving advice at every opportunity (e.g OTC request, MURs & NMS)
- actively participates in local health promotion campaigns
4
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Describe and give examples for of the passive and active roles the pharmacist cam have in HP
Passive role
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Smoking
The patient makes the first move
- posters, leaflets and advice on smoking
- supply nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)
5
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Describe and give examples for of the passive and active roles the pharmacist cam have in HP
Active role
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Smoking
The pharmacists makes the first move
- identify smokers e.g patients purchasing cough medicine
- invention e.g advise on smoking cessation
6
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Discuss the HP requirements of the community pharmacy contract and quality payments
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