Universidad de Zamboanga

BSPH 2

SOCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PHARMACY
INTRODUCTION
SOCIAL PHARMACY
Social Pharmacy is the multidisciplinary field of education and research that focuses on the role,
provision, regulation and use of medicines in society. The scope is broad, covering the social,
psycho-social, economic, and organizational aspects of medicines.
ADMINISTRATIVE PHARMACY
Deals with drug research and regulation, education, drug development and more often the
management of pharmacies, including drug preparation and distribution, supply control and
personnel supervision.
SOCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PHARMACY
Social and administrative pharmacy is used loosely to describe a collection of different interests,
which outline the social aspects of pharmacy, sometimes labeled social pharmacy, other times
administrative pharmacy but also pharmacy management. The broad discipline is founded on
the principles of social science and organizational theory and has as a central interest in the
beliefs, values and behaviors that people display in relation to medicine use and society at the
individual and organizational levels.
DOH PHARMACEUTICAL DIVISION
1. Policy, Planning, Program Development and Research Unit (PPPDRU)
2. System Support Unit (SSU)
3. Program Implementation and Monitoring Unit (PIMU)
Objectives:
• To analyze healthcare delivery status in a given setting
• To discuss the national drug policies affecting administration of pharmaceutical care
• Define the social and administrative needs of a medicine as to production, distribution,
consumption and information provision
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATION
TOPIC 1
HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM
It is an organization of people, institutions, and resources