Pharmacy Contributions to Improved Population Health: Expanding the Public Health Roundtable

摘要

Success in health care is increasingly being measured by improvements in population health outcomes in response to interventions rather than by services delivered ( 1 ). In this new landscape, cross-sectoral collaboration is paramount ( 2 ), and the profession of pharmacy is an often-overlooked partner ( 3 ). Our vision is that pharmacists and the profession of pharmacy be included as an integral part of the roundtable of health care and public health. This special collection of articles in Preventing Chronic Disease highlights the contributions of pharmacy to the field of public health and expands the vision of how pharmacy can improve population health.