This new module, Pharmaceutical Policy and Management introduces students to pharmaceutical policy and management issues within the health systems framework and will be an additional elective in the MPH within the Pharmaceutical Public Health group, which provides students with an interest in this area a degree of specialisation.
By the end of the this module students should be able to:
- Identify the key role that pharmaceuticals play in health systems
- Critically explore and analyse how access to and rational use of pharmaceuticals play a key function in health systems
- Identify how the health and pharmaceutical policy process are linked together at different levels of the health system
- Demonstrate how policies can be developed and incorporated into management systems to improve access and use of medicines
- Analyse existing policy instruments that have been used to manage the delivery of pharmaceutical systems
- Prepare a policy brief and critically review an existing policy document
- Develop an implementation plan for a new policy that would include monitoring and evaluation
- Identify the importance of community involvement in policy development, health promotion and in the design and implementation of
- Evaluate the particular pharmaceutical policy needs for medicines with particular characteristics such as vaccines or controlled substances
- Analyse points in the pharmaceutical supply and use chain that are particularly vulnerable to corruption and suggest policy and managerial approaches to address these