International Women's Day Questions: How Can a Pharmacist Help and Support the Women's Health?

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International Women's Day is celebrated all over the world on March 8. It's a time to share women's accomplishments, ask for equality, and fight for freedoms and basic rights. Next to the celebration of women's empowerment, anyway, the day serves as a chance to raise awareness concerning many issues linked to women like women's education, gender violence, women's reproductive rights, abuses against women, gender equality, women's health, etc.


But International Women's Day Questions: How Can a Pharmacist Help and Support the Women's Health?

Well, pharmacists are supplying medicine management services, wellness and health advising, patient education, and medicinal screening. They have constantly had an essential role to perform in addressing medication-linked questions in breast feeding and pregnancy. Primary care services, containing women’s health, can be supplied by pharmacists to assist alleviate the deficiency of primary care doctors.

Anyway, the Women's and Newborns’ pharmacist is becoming a prominent  expertise, with chances for pharmacists to work beside lactation consultants, neonatologists, gynaecologists, obstetric physicians, midwives, and obstetricians; to promote medication safety and the quality of care in this growingly high-risk group of patients. Hopefully, pharmacists are eligible of supplying many of the required maternal health services as well, given their availability, may fill a cavity for patients not attaining these services somewhere else.

In short words, as a graduate student of Clinical Pharmacy (MSc) Thesis Program at Yeditepe University and individual member of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), I'd like to state that pharmacists can help supply favorable health care to women; to develop the quality of their lives through education and counsel on main areas.