Keywords
Pharmaceutical care
pharmaceutical services
health education
pharmacies
Abstract
The changing scenarios in healthcare in recent years underscore the need to promote diverse, articulated, and complex care approaches capable of paying greater attention to people's vulnerability and responding to multiple care needs. A multidimensional approach to healthcare also suggests a review of the role that pharmacies can assume within the healthcare system, with particular regard to the possibility of creating a relational space with the citizen aimed at strengthening the fiduciary relationship with him or her and promoting greater user empowerment in therapy adherence.
The promotion of this ethically relevant service could yield several benefits: greater protection of public health, rationalization of public spending, and shifts in the demand for healthcare services. This paper aims to illustrate some socially and ethically relevant aspects of collaboration between pharmacists, general practitioners, and pediatricians of free choice.
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