Medicine Maker: An Outreach Activity for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Health Literacy.

ABSTRACT: Public engagement in medicine has become more important in promoting population health management and literacy. Medicine is a topic of great societal importance, and many public engagement activities have been developed to promote this area. However, they often narrowly focus on patient groups, diseases, a singular pharmaceutical drug or analytical technique. Despite the importance of these activities, general audiences are still heavily reliant on doctors and pharmacists for information about their medicine and lack basic knowledge around medication use and personal safety. Given this, a broader engagement approach is warranted to target health literacy among the wider public. "Medicine Maker" is a hands-on public engagement workshop that provides audiences with the opportunity to "manufa

SUBMITTER: McHugh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8908739 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature