Community pharmacy interventions for public health priorities : a systematic review of community pharmacy-delivered smoking, alcohol and weight management interventions.

摘要

Background: The Department of Health has identified interventions to manage alcohol misuse, smokingudand overweight, delivered by community pharmacists, as public health priorities.udObjectives: To systematically review the effectiveness of community pharmacy interventions to manageudalcohol misuse, smoking cessation and weight loss; to explore if and how age, sex, ethnicity andudsocioeconomic status moderate effectiveness; and to describe how the interventions have been organised,udimplemented and delivered.udData sources: Ten electronic databases were searched: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts;udCumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature; EMBASE; International Bibliography of the SocialudSciences; MEDLINE; NHS Economic Evaluation Database; PsycINFO; Social Science Citation Index; Scopus;udand the Sociological Abstracts from inception to May 2014. There was no restriction on language orudcountry. Supplementary searches included website, grey literature, study registers, bibliographies andudcontacting experts.