Obtaining and Providing Health Information in the Community Pharmacy Setting

continUing EDuCAtiON Patient health literacy in the Community Pharmacy Setting

pon successful completion of this article, the pharmacist should be able to: 1. describe the status of literacy in the United States 2. define functional health literacy and its relationship to health outcomes. 3. describe how to assess low health literacy in community pharmacy patients. 4. address low health literacy in the community pharmacy setting through patient counseling. 5. address low ...

A Geographic Information System Analysis of Accessibility to Community Pharmacy in Shiraz, Iran

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...

Health literacy in the pharmacy setting: defining pharmacotherapy literacy

OBJECTIVE All currently available definitions of health literacy may be considered quite general. Given the complex nature of the patient-pharmacy encounter and the varying tasks required to properly and successfully consume or administer medication or to adhere to a pharmaceutical care regimen, these available definitions may describe inadequately a patient's health literacy for the purpose of...

Exploring health literacy competencies in community pharmacy.

BACKGROUND Health literacy is the ability to obtain, interpret and use health information. Low rates of health literacy in Australia have been suggested, but no validated measure exists. OBJECTIVE To explore health literacy competencies in a sample of community pharmacy consumers. DESIGN Structured interviews were undertaken by a team of researchers during August, 2009. The instrument was d...