Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy
A Definitive Guide
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2024
- Editors: Ahmed Awaisu, Emad Eldin Munsour, Rabia Hussain, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, Parisa Aslani
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 4 0 7 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 9 7 1 - 4
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Request a sales quoteHealth 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.
- Empowers health care professionals with necessary knowledge about issues surrounding medication literacy
- Provides different approaches to develop customized and patient-friendly written medicine information, including using pictorial aids in medication instructions
- Includes the use of technological aides and communication mediums, including smart phones
Pharmacists, physicians and nurses as well as clinicians, researchers, educators, and students in the healthcare disciplines, Developer of written medicine information (WMI) such as drug manufacturers, drug information centers, and patient support groups, Drug regulatory authorities, health-related NGOs, and patient safety working groups will also find this book useful.
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
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128244074
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Ahmed Awaisu
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Emad Eldin Munsour
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Rabia Hussain
Dr. Rabia Hussain Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. Her research focuses on medication safety and pharmacovigilance in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). She has extensively published on pharmacovigilance, pharmacy practice research methods, issues related to medicines use, and clinical pharmacy. She has published in journals including The Lancet, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, Journal of Public Health, Vaccines, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, The Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology: In Practice and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, while the book chapters are in Elsevier and Springer books on pharmacy such as “Encyclopaedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy” and “Pharmaceutical Policy in Countries with developing health systems”. She also worked with the ReAct – Action on Antibiotic Resistance, Uppsala University, Sweden on “improving the use of antibiotics”. Dr. Hussain is the Section Editor of Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice (JoPPP), editorial board member of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy and academic editor for Plos One. Her edited work includes “Encyclopaedia of Evidence in Pharmaceutical Public Health and Health Services Research in Pharmacy (Elsevier)” and “Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy: A Definitive Guide, (Elsevier)”.
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