Syllabus
Syllabus
Lectures:
Introduction to the subject of Social Pharmacy, the importance of medicines in medicine and society, principles of rational use of medicines
Health and drug policy
Health statistics, epidemiology, informatics
Classification systems for medicines, dietary supplements, food for special purposes, orphan drugs, medical devices
Marketing authorisation of medicines, unregistered drugs
Health care systems, health care financing and marketing, health care specifics
Pharmaceutical industry, generic and original companies, distribution, actual problems
Pharmacoeconomics, Health technology assessment
Social pharmacy and its scientific background
Halth insurance and insurance companies
Pricing and reimbursement of medicines
Pharmaceutical research, clinical trials
Medication adherence
Pharmaceutical education, health workers
Pharmacovigilance
Pharmaceutical control, quality of provided health care and patient safety
Prevention in health and pharmacy, preventive measures and screening programs
Drug utilization
Health and Disease, determinants of health, search for health problems in the population
Professional organizations in health care and pharmacy, role of EMA, FDA, SÚKL and Ministry of Health
Antibiotics policy and prevention of infectious diseases
Social and labour law, personnel policy in health care, multiculture principles, ethnicity
Health law and legislation
Seminars:
Health statistics (examples)
Seminar teamwork I
Brand name and generic drugs, generic substitution
Marketing, advertisement, health ethics, positive lists
Seminar teamwork II
Advanced pharmacovigilance and Drug utilization (examples)
Annotation
Social pharmacy is a compulsory subject within the Pharmacy study program.
The field of social pharmacy is one of the basic pharmaceutical disciplines and explores the position and existence of pharmacy as a healthcare profession in society. It is an interdisciplinary field that allows us to understand the context of the interactions between medications and society.
Social pharmacy builds upon the fundamental knowledge acquired in subjects such as History and Organization of Pharmacy, Basics of Pharmacy Practice, Health Care Psychology, Law and Ethics for Pharmacists, Economics and Management of Pharmaceutical Practice. At the same time, knowledge in social pharmacy is intertwined with the parallel subject Pharmaceutical Care I.
Through this course, students will gain an understanding of medications and their role and significance in the population, knowledge about various subjects related to healthcare and drug policy and the basic organizational and functional principles of the healthcare system, which are essential for a pharmacist's comprehension.