Strengthening Primary Healthcare through accelerated advancement of the global pharmacy workforce: a cross-sectional survey of 88 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Advancing the pharmacy workforce contributes to strengthening primary healthcare and accelerating progress towards universal health coverage. This study aimed to identify key enablers to support policy development for national pharmacy workforce advancement.

Design

A cross-sectional country-level questionnaire was distributed from July 2018 to March 2019.

Setting

National-level or country-level pharmacy workforce development policy.

Participants

Professional leadership associations and national agencies of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). The FIP global database included 129 countries.

Measures

The questionnaire was designed to collate data on the scope of advanced and specialist practice in respondent countries. Multiple corr

SUBMITTER: Bates I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9114847 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature