What is social pharmacy

The widespread use and dependency on drugs and drug products in today's society, coupled with an increased utilization and application of pharmaceutical services, has created a need for individuals who can study the social, psychosocial, political, legal, historic, and economic factors that impinge upon the use, non-use and abuse of drugs. A number of critical factors shaping the health policies in the United States and around the world emphasize the need for increased research concerning the role of pharmaceuticals and the pharmacy practitioner in new and old systems of health care. In order to accomplish this goal, the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy offers a graduate program in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. PhD and Master Degree Programs Study within the Social and Administrative Pharmacy program is tailored carefully to the specific needs and objectives of the student. It is a flexible, interdisciplinary program which utilizes all resources of the University's many outstanding departments in an effort to provide the student with knowledge and experience in areas she/he feels is applicable to the resolution of pharmacy-oriented problems. The wealth of academic resources located at the University of Minnesota, Academic Health Center, and the Twin Cities allows the student to maximize his/her own educational experiences. Progress Towards Degree Students in the masters and doctoral programs are expected to maintain at least a B average in the program. Stu...

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Social pharmacy may be defined as a discipline dealing with the role of medicines from social, scientific, and humanistic perspectives. It draws on theories of social and behavioral sciences including health psychology. Research of our unit consists of analyses of social factors influencing the use of drugs such as medicine-related beliefs, regulations, medication policy, attitudes, medicine information, ethics, or behavior. Social pharmacy as a social science within the health care and pharmacy may provide various views on issues managed by health professionals inside as well as outside of the health care system. This multidisciplinary perspective often offers divergent opinions which could be sometimes considered as contradictory with conflicting solutions. Social pharmacy is an interdisciplinary discipline which enables pharmacy professionals to participate in and take responsibility for decisions regarding drug-related issues at the societal level. Drugs significantly affect society, and the application of appropriate medication policies affects the quality of life in that culture. Citizens themselves can significantly alter the role of specific drugs in terms of prevention as well as causal, and symptomatic treatment. Thus, our intention is to identify and explore these relationships among regulators, health care professionals, and individuals with the aim to ensure benefit of patients as well as society at all. The role of pharmacists in modern health care is essenti...

by Martha Albertson Fineman The following essay appeared in the catalog for Social Pharmacy, a social art piece by Jody Wood that features “ Photo by Anna Viola Hallberg Jody Wood’s innovative artistic method involves selecting significant social issues or practices to explore and combining the empirical insights of the social scientist with the critical and creative vision of the artist. This critical and constructive interdisciplinary approach has the potential to yield unique and productive insights into those social practices that we may otherwise take for granted. As an artist, her task is not to merely represent or conceptually exemplify reality, but to also reveal transformative possibilities. She seeks to directly engage those encountering her work in this creative process, bringing them into the work as participants rather than mere observers or onlookers. In doing so, she compels us to not only see, but to care about these social practices and the effects they have on our individual and social lives. In some of her earlier work, Jody addressed pressing issues of societal failure, such as homelessness. Among the significant consequences exposed were the stigma and exclusion imposed on certain members of society as a result of their housing status. The need for compassion and effective social policy in regard to housing for the disadvantaged and dispossessed is certainly important and this project successfully raised those issues. However, while it may have generat...