셀프메디케이션과 약사직능

• 영문명: Self-Medication and the Pharmacy Profession
• 발행기관: 대한약학회
• 저자명: 한병현(Byong Hyon Han)
• 간행물 정보: 『약학회지』제47권 제4호 (2003년), 252~259쪽, 전체 8쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 기타의약학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2003.08.30

영문 초록

Self-medication is a representative phenomenon in the domain of popular care, originated from perspective of medical pluralism and the pharmacy profession is said to be in the most appropriate position of health care professions to activate serf- medication. As any healthcare reform impacts in a country 2000 institutional separation between medicine and pharmacy implemented in Korea brought a lot of changes in behavior of drug use not only to physicians and pharmacists but also to consumers (patients). In this paper the reality of self-medication since the institutional separation between medicine and pharmacy was analyzed, based on the empirical data which were collected by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs in 2002. The major finding is that the domain of popular care including self- medication was significantly shrunk, while that of professional care was proportionally expanded. As a result, the following four points were strongly recommended for the purpose of promoting self-medication: I) upgrading the pharmacy education system from 4 year to 6 year level, ii) improvement of continuing education and introduction of GPP (Good Pharmacy Practice), iii) activating 'pharmacal encounter'(I.e., pharmacist-consumer relationship) and iv) promotion of socio- economic research activities and proactive participation in the international self- medication movement of pharmacists in Korea.

키워드

self-medication medical pluralism pharmacal encounter pharmacy profession.