Araújo-Neto Fernando de Castro, Dosea Aline Santana, Fonseca Francielly Lima da, Tavares Thaís Maria Araújo, Santos Douglas de Menezes, Pimentel Déborah Mônica Machado, Mesquita Alessandra Rezende, Lyra Divaldo Pereira de
Health Sciences Graduate Program, Laboratory of Teaching and Research in Social Pharmacy (LEPFS), Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Sergipe, Brazil.
Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Laboratory of Teaching and Research in Social Pharmacy (LEPFS), Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Sergipe, Brazil.
Explor Res Clin Soc Pharm. 2024 Jan 2;13:100405. doi: 10.1016/j.rcsop.2023.100405. eCollection 2024 Mar.
In recent years, pharmaceutical professionalism has been questioned due to the social role of pharmacy, which is ambiguous in the literature. This raises questions about the purpose of the profession among pharmacists, despite the efforts of their professional organizations and formal leaders to consolidate the occupational status of the profession.
To understand the social role of pharmacy in Brazil through its historical evolution based on the perceptions of formal leaders of the profession.
A qualitative study was conducted between July 2020 and February 2021 with pharmacists who held leadership positions in formal and professional pharmacy organizations in Brazil. The data obtained from the interviews were submitted to content analysis.
A total of 17 pharmacists participated in this study. The data analyzed presented perceptions about the social role of the pharmaceutical profession in Brazil, which promotes access to health through different means. These include the manager pharmacist, who facilitates access to public health policies; the caring pharmacist, who promotes health education and the rational use of medicines; and the technologist pharmacist, who researches, develops, and promotes access to safe and cost-effective medicines. The interviewees also discussed the evolution of this social role based on influential factors such as legislation, clinical movement, pharmaceutical education, labor market, behaviors, and attitudes of pharmacists.
In this study, pharmaceutical professionalism was conceptualized based on its social role, which should be centered on the patient. Understanding such issues is part of the evolutionary purpose of the profession in Brazil and should be encouraged in the behaviors and attitudes of pharmacists despite the challenges faced by the profession.
近年来，由于药学在社会中的角色在文献中尚不明确，药学专业性受到质疑。尽管专业组织和正式领导者努力巩固该职业的职业地位，但这引发了药剂师对该职业目的的质疑。
基于该职业正式领导者的认知，通过其历史演变来理解巴西药学的社会角色。
2020年7月至2021年2月，对在巴西正式药学组织和专业药学组织中担任领导职务的药剂师进行了一项定性研究。从访谈中获得的数据进行了内容分析。
共有17名药剂师参与了本研究。分析的数据呈现了对巴西药学职业社会角色的认知，该角色通过不同方式促进健康获取。这些角色包括促进公共卫生政策获取的管理型药剂师；促进健康教育和合理用药的关怀型药剂师；以及研究、开发并促进安全且具成本效益药品获取的技术型药剂师。受访者还基于立法、临床运动、药学教育、劳动力市场、药剂师的行为和态度等影响因素讨论了这一社会角色的演变。
在本研究中，药学专业性基于其社会角色进行了概念化，该社会角色应以患者为中心。理解此类问题是巴西该职业发展目标的一部分，尽管该职业面临挑战，但仍应在药剂师的行为和态度中得到鼓励。
