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What can pharmacists do?
4. Informing health care professionals and the public
• The pharmacist can compile and maintain information on all
medicines, and particularly on newly introduced medicines,
provide this information as necessary to other health care
professionals and to patients, and
• use it in promoting the rational use of drugs, by providing
advice and explanations to physicians and to members of
the public.
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What can pharmacists do?
5. Health promotion
The pharmacist can take part in health promotion campaigns, locally and nationally, on a wide range of
health-related topics
• e.g., Rational use of drugs, alcohol abuse, tobacco use, discouragement
of drug use during pregnancy, organic solvent abuse, poison prevention
• Topics concerned with other health problems (diarrhoeal diseases,
tuberculosis, leprosy, HIV-infection/AIDS) /Family planning.
• Obesity and prevention of non communicable diseases.
• Support services for drug addiction (opioid replacement
therapy, needle and syringe programes).
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