Epidemiology and Public Health

Public Health Pharmacy

Core elements of public health practice are as follows.

1. Surveilance and assessment of the population’s health and well-being.

2. Promoting and protecting the population’s health and well-being.

3. Developing quality and risk management with in evaluative frameworks.

4. Collaboratively working for health, building alliances and partnerships.

5. Developing capacity to reduce health inequalities

6. Policy and strategy development and implementation, cyclical efforts to implement strategies and assess the impact of those policies on health improvement

7. Strategic leadership, reduction in inappropriate antibiotics use etc.

8. Commitment to lifelong learning to assure better models equitable use, distribution and access to resources.