Laboratory of Community Pharmacy, Gifu Pharmaceutical University.
Mamiya Dispensing Pharmacy.
Yakugaku Zasshi. 2024;144(2):223-229. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.23-00125.
Home healthcare services provided by community pharmacists are essential for maintaining community care, especially in Japan's aging population. Personnel shortage in pharmacies is occasionally cited as the reason why pharmacies are unable to provide home healthcare services. This study examined the relationship between the number of pharmacists in each pharmacy and the provision of home healthcare services. The number of full-time and part-time pharmacists per pharmacy has a positive impact on the provision of home healthcare services. Moreover, the larger the number of pharmacists per pharmacy, the easier it is for the pharmacy to provide home healthcare services. With regard to pharmacies with one full-time pharmacist, there are more pharmacies that provide home healthcare services when the population density of municipalities where the pharmacy is located is high. However, the impact of the number of pharmacists on population density became obscure when the number of full-time pharmacists per pharmacy was three or more. Taken together, these findings indicate that the provision of home healthcare services by pharmacies is related to the number of pharmacists per pharmacy and the population density of the area. This could have implications for widening regional disparities in home healthcare services.
社区药剂师提供的家庭医疗保健服务对于维持社区护理至关重要，尤其是在日本这个老龄化人口的国家。药剂师人手短缺偶尔会被认为是药剂师无法提供家庭医疗保健服务的原因。本研究考察了每个药店的药剂师人数与提供家庭医疗保健服务之间的关系。每个药店的全职和兼职药剂师人数对提供家庭医疗保健服务有积极影响。此外，每个药店的药剂师人数越多，药店提供家庭医疗保健服务就越容易。对于有一名全职药剂师的药店，当药店所在市的人口密度较高时，提供家庭医疗保健服务的药店就越多。然而，当每个药店的全职药剂师人数达到三个或更多时，药剂师人数对人口密度的影响变得不明显。综上所述，这些发现表明，药店提供家庭医疗保健服务与每个药店的药剂师人数和该地区的人口密度有关。这可能会对家庭医疗保健服务的地区差异扩大产生影响。
