THE NEW SOCIAL PHARMACY RESEARCH AREAS Guenka Petrova Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University Sofia
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THE NEW SOCIAL PHARMACY RESEARCH
AREASGuenka Petrova
Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University Sofia
Some definitions
► Smith and Knapp – “it is studying the “socioeconomic determinants of drug use.”
► Manasse and Rucker - “a sub-discipline within the pharmaceutical sciences which centers on the study of and education in the applied social, behavioral, administrative and legal sciences which bear upon the nature and impact of pharmacy practice regardless of the environment in which professional services are furnished
► Sorofman – it is not: “...not pharmaceutics, not medicinal chemistry, not pharmacology, and not clinical”
► Sorofman B., and Knapp D. - “Social and Administrative Pharmacy addresses the system of pharmacy in society, including pharmacy education, human behavior, social interactions, and the consumption of drugs.”
Social Pharmacy Research
►Within the Social pharmacy the pharmaceutical sector is studied from: the social, behavioral, economic, administrative
and humanistic perspective.
►These perspectives are changing with the development of the society and so social pharmacy and its research area is changingto answer to new needs.
Focus of the study and main questions
► To critically examine and categorize the areas of Social Pharmacy research in Bulgaria;
►To make recommendations for future research.
►How are the Social Pharmacy researches in Bulgaria changing?
Conceptual framework
Social Pharmacy Research dimensions
Structure and functioning of the pharmaceutical
services
Legal requirements towardsMedicines, Practice,
Professionals, incl. Intellectualproperty
Professionals and workplace
issues
Professional behavior,Good Practice Standards
Sales and supply of medicine
Ethics
Pharmacoeconomics,Pharmacoepidemiology
Pharmaceutical care
History of Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical scienceand education
Materials and Methods
► Periods 1953-1989
and 1989 - 2008
► Publications in national scientific journals (n= 375);
► Publications in International scientific journals (n=196).
► Grouping ands systematization
►Content analysis
Objects of Social Pharmacy Research
► Medicines;
► Pharmaceuticals sector development and functioning;
► Pharmaceutical practice;
► Professionals.
►Within the context of the Medicines legislation and policy (National or Global).
Research areas in the first period
History
12%
Managerial
5%
Pharm Industry
13%
Pharm supply, usage,
forecasting
17%
Pharm Educ
10%
R&D
9%
Other
13%
Normative studies
21%
Research areas in the second period
Pharm profession
7%
History
2%
NDP
6%
Pharm Industry
5%
Pharm supply, usage,
forecasting
19%
Pharm Educ
1%
R&D
3%
Other
4%
Pharm Legisl
11%
PharmCare
17%
Pharm Econ
14%
Pharm Epi
7%
Hospital Pharm
4%
Studies oriented toward Medicines
45 1310
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
1953-1989 1990-2008
First Period
Pharm supply, usage,
forecasting
Pharmaceutical
Industry
R&D
20 15 10
Second Period
Pharm supply, usage,
forecasting
Pharmaceutical
Industry
R&D Pharm-Econ Pharm-Epi
50 15 7 39 20
Studies oriented toward pharmaceutical Practice
►
65 890
20
40
60
80
100
1953-1989 1990-2008
First Period
Normative studies Pharm Industry Pharm Educ Other
23 15 12 15
Second Period
Pharm Care Pharm Industry Pharm Educ Other Hospital Pharm
48 15 3 12 11
Studies oriented toward Pharmaceuticals Sector
58 68
52
54
56
58
60
62
64
66
68
1953-1989 1990-2008
First Period
Normative studies History Pharm Industry Managerial
23 14 15 6
Second Period
NDP History Pharm Industry Legislation
16 6 15 31
Studies oriented towards Professionals
42112
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
1953-1989 1990-2008
First Period
Normative studies Managerial Pharm Education
23 6 12
Second Period
Pharm Profession Hospital Pharmacy Pharm Education Pharm Legislation
19 11 3 31
Uncovered or underdeveloped areas of research
► Medicines and professional ethics,
► Behavioral studies – focusing on patients and society,
► Informational technologies in social pharmacy,
► Needs of services for particular patients,
► Health and medicines related quality of life studies.
Conclusion
►The social pharmacy researches have changed from politically and managerially oriented towards humanistic, economic and epidemiology oriented.
► The social pharmacy research in Bulgaria need further development in respect with the international achievements.
►There is a need for methodological studies development that employ general principles towards the specific country situation.
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