Pharmacists and telemedicine: an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The lack of access to safe medicines and quality healthcare services in peri-urban and rural areas is a major challenge driving a health system to innovate new models of care. This commentary will discuss the implementation and impact of the “Guddi baji” tele-pharmacy model, a project piloted by doc...
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| author | Nadia Bukhari Maryam Siddique Nazia Bilal Sobia Javed Arzu Moosvi Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar |
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| description | The lack of access to safe medicines and quality healthcare services in peri-urban and rural areas is a major challenge driving a health system to innovate new models of care. This commentary will discuss the implementation and impact of the “Guddi baji” tele-pharmacy model, a project piloted by doctHERs, one of Pakistan’s leading telemedicine organizations. This innovative model has described the reintegration of women into the workforce by leveraging technology to improve the level of primary health care services and contributes to safe medication practice in a remote area. Our intervention proposed the deployment of technology-enabled, female frontline health workers known as the Guddi baji (meaning The Good Sister) in a rural village. They serve as an “access point to health care” that is linked to a remotely located health care professional; a licensed doctor or a pharmacist within this model. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e5527700decb4ff7b8d15c2b1836d83b2023-12-07T15:28:04ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice2052-32112021-12-0114110.1186/s40545-021-00378-912315287Pharmacists and telemedicine: an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)Nadia Bukhari0Maryam Siddique1Nazia Bilal2Sobia Javed3Arzu Moosvi4Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar5UCL School of Pharmacy,doctHERs,doctHERs,doctHERs,doctHERs,Department of Pharmacy,The lack of access to safe medicines and quality healthcare services in peri-urban and rural areas is a major challenge driving a health system to innovate new models of care. This commentary will discuss the implementation and impact of the “Guddi baji” tele-pharmacy model, a project piloted by doctHERs, one of Pakistan’s leading telemedicine organizations. This innovative model has described the reintegration of women into the workforce by leveraging technology to improve the level of primary health care services and contributes to safe medication practice in a remote area. Our intervention proposed the deployment of technology-enabled, female frontline health workers known as the Guddi baji (meaning The Good Sister) in a rural village. They serve as an “access point to health care” that is linked to a remotely located health care professional; a licensed doctor or a pharmacist within this model.http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-021-00378-9pharmaciststelemedicinesustainable development goals |
| spellingShingle | Nadia Bukhari Maryam Siddique Nazia Bilal Sobia Javed Arzu Moosvi Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar Pharmacists and telemedicine: an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice pharmacists telemedicine sustainable development goals |
| title | Pharmacists and telemedicine: an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) |
| title_full | Pharmacists and telemedicine: an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) |
| title_fullStr | Pharmacists and telemedicine: an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pharmacists and telemedicine: an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) |
| title_short | Pharmacists and telemedicine: an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) |
| title_sort | pharmacists and telemedicine an innovative model fulfilling sustainable development goals sdgs |
| topic | pharmacists telemedicine sustainable development goals |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-021-00378-9 |
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