Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy

A Definitive Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-12-824407-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 229 mm

Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy: A Definitive Guide highlights issues related to the medication literacy from the context of pharmacist and other healthcare professionals. This book provides a clear explanation of medication literacy, presents different tools to assess health literacy, readability, and comprehensibility of written medicine information (WMI), elaborates on different approaches to develop customized and patient-friendly WMI, and assists in the global effort for harmonization and availability of quality WMI. Written by experts in medical communication, this book will help pharmacists, other health professionals, educators, and regulators who may be ill-equipped to develop customized education material and provide effective medication literacy information, especially for patients with low health literacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Awaisu, Ahmed

Munsour, Emad Eldin

Aslani, Parisa

Hussain, Rabia

Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Qualitätsmanagement, Qualitätssicherung (QS), Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pharmazie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to Medication Literacy and Health Literacy in Pharmacy
2. Assessment of Health Literacy
3. Global initiatives for promotion of medication literacy
4. Written medicine information
5. Pharmaceutical pictograms
6. The use of information technology in medication literacy
7. Approaching patients with low health literacy to improve communication and outcomes - Communication strategies
8. Promoting health literacy practices in pharmacy through quality improvement
9. Health literacy issues in community pharmacy setting
10. Health literacy issues in pediatrics and their caregivers
11. Perspectives of prescribers towards medication literacy issues in tertiary care setting
12. User testing as a tool to improve medication literacy
13. Health Literacy Pharmacy Education: Developing Medication Literacy Curriculum
14. Advancing Pharmacy Research on Health Literacy
15. Establishment of a multidisciplinary medicines information network
16. Medical Interpreters Training for health care professionals

Über Autor(innen)

Aslani, Parisa
Professor Parisa Aslani, Professor in Medicines Use Optimisation, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006. She is a co-chair of Curriculum Review for the BPharm and MPharm degrees. Expert advisor to staff regarding teaching and learning matters. For example, the development of oral examination rubrics for MPharm UoS PHAR5716 and PHAR5717. Director of Academic Career Development (School of Pharmacy), Faculty of Medicine and Health (0.5 FTE). Vice-President, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) (since 2020).

Munsour, Emad Eldin
Emad Eldin Munsour holds a master degree in Pharmacy practice and has around 16 years in pharma-regulatory and compliance area. He looks after the authorization of pharmaceutical products, including evaluation of bioequivalence studies, clinical trials, and Pharmacovigilance system, in addition to CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls).Emad is the editor of Qatar National Formulary (QNF) and is a professional reviewer for the WHO bulletin and Value in Health Regional issues. He is also involved in many projects related to Qatar National Health Strategy (NHS) i.e. National Drug Coding, Generic use and advancement of the pharmaceutical legislative framework. He shared his research in various international conferences and published some articles on pharmaceutical care and other pharmacy practice areas.