European Pharmaceutical Students' Association
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The European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association
(EPSA) held its annual congress in Zagreb, Croatia, on 1–7 April.
The central theme of the congress was pharmacoeconomics
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Pharmacoeconomics is vital to
education It is vital that pharmacy students are given a basic
level of training in health economics, according to BETHAN GEORGE, academic
department of pharmacy, Barts and the London NHS Trust...[more]
What is health economics and
what is its use? Three key concepts that have to be considered
in economics are choice, costs and consequences, and evaluation, said
BETHAN GEORGE, academic department of pharmacy, Barts and the London NHS
Trust...[more]
Linking pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical
care Observational studies provide a method of bridging the
gap between pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical care, said ANDREA MESSORI,
Italian Society of Hospital Pharmacists...[more]
What is the role of guidelines? What
is the roles of guidelines, asked Dr CATHERINE DUGGAN, director of the
academic department of pharmacy, Barts and the London NHS Trust...[more]
Making the drugs bill affordable How
can we keep the drugs bill affordable, asked LOEK ARTS, KNMP (Royal Dutch
Association for the Advancement of Pharmacy)...[more]
What is EPSA? ...[more]
Life-long learning The congress voted
to introduce an EPSA life-long learning certificate...[more]
Health campaigning EPSA believes that
pharmacy students should be proactive in health awareness among both young
people and in society...[more]
Drugs of misuse EPSA
runs a drug awareness project that has two aims: to educate pharmacy students
in this area and to create awareness about drugs of misuse among school
children...[more]
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