Pharmacy location and medical need: regional evidence from Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacists in Canada are assuming an increasingly important role in the provision of primary care services. This raises questions about access to pharmacy services among those with medical care needs. While there is evidence on proximity of residents of Ontario and Nova Scotia to community pharmacies, there is little evidence for the rest of Canada. I thus measured the availability of pharmacist services, both the number of community pharmacies and their hours of operation, at both the provincial and sub-provincial level in Canada. Next, I measured associations of indicators of medical need and the availability of pharmacist services across sub-provincial units.

Methods

I collected data, for each Forward Sortation Area (FSA), on medical need, measured using the f

SUBMITTER: Grootendorst P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9635116 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature