Authors
Priyanka Mishra
Abstract
Earlier Pharmacy did not have that much of importance but currently it has been observed that it works as the backbone of current world as it comprises the third largest healthcare line of work in the world, it has been evolving as profession steadily and gradually since the last decade in India. The role of pharmacist have expanded eventually, these professionals not only just dispense the medicine now it has expanded their horizon from dispensing medicine to pharmaceutical care too. The profession of pharmacy has proved to be essential part of healthcare system worldwide. This paper is written in order to analyze the current scenario of pharmacy in Europe and India, and highlight the awareness aspect of it. It seems that pharmacists and Pharma students of developing countries are concerned about their position in the present professional world of healthcare system. The aim of this paper is just to highlight the very fact and need of pharmaceutical industries as well as pharmacy in developing country such as India. Keywords: Pharmaceutical Care, Pharma, Europe, India, Education, healthcare system.
Introduction
Pharmaceutical sciences is combination of broad range of scientific disciplines, these disciplines are dire to the finding and advancement of new drugs type. It is an interdisciplinary field which is dynamic in nature, its aim is to incorporate basic principles of core sciences such as physical or organic chemistry, biochemistry, engineering and of course biology to understand novel and better-quality therapies, and to optimize delivering drugs in the body.
There are many variant disciplines of pharmaceutical science, these discipline contribute to the discovery and development of new drugs and therapies. Below is given list of categories of pharmaceutical sciences:
• Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality
• Biotechnology
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Translational Research
• Drug Discovery and Development
• Formulation of Design and Development
• Manufacturing Science and Engineering
• Pharmacokinetics
• Pharmacodynamics
• Bio pharmaceutics
• Regulatory Science
By definition pharmaceutical care can be known as the provision that is responsible to put any patient under therapy of drug in order to achieve a better quality of life for him or her and a sister branch that is very new and extends from this area of science is medical specialty. Almost about twenty years ago concept of pharmaceuticals care started from United States. There are various definition given by different experts, one of them is given by Helper and Strand which says that pharmaceutical care is the provision responsible of drug therapy and its main goal is to improve the quality of life of a patient.
The various outcomes on which a pharmacist focuses on are:
• To find the ultimate cure of the disease
• To eradicate the patients symptomatology or to reduce the same
• If the elimination is not possible, the concern lies over the arresting or reducing of a particular disease process
• And finally to prevent a patient from a disease or To prevent him from its symptoms.
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