@article{ref1,
title="Rural pharmacy not delivering on its health promotion potential",
journal="Australian journal of rural health",
year="2006",
author="Maycock, Bruce and McManus, Alexandra and Joyce, Andrew and Burrows, Suzanne and Sunderland, Bruce",
volume="14",
number="3",
pages="116-119",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate the level and perceived quality of health promotion advice received from rural pharmacists. DESIGN: Self-administered written survey on access to and quality of pharmacy services in rural Western Australia completed by rural residents. SETTING: Rural pharmacy. PARTICIPANTS: Four hundred and eighty-three respondents who regularly used a pharmacy. OUTCOME MEASURES: Items in the survey included frequency of receiving prevention advice and satisfaction ratings on health and pharmacy services. RESULTS: Eighty-eight per cent of respondents had never discussed exercise or diet with their pharmacist and 65% had never discussed preventing health problems. Receiving good prevention advice predicted satisfaction with health services in general but not satisfaction with pharmacy services. CONCLUSION: Pharmacies are being underutilised with respect to their capacity to deliver heath prevention advice and ways to capitalise on this potential need to be investigated.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1038-5282",
doi="10.1111/j.1440-1584.2006.00774.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1584.2006.00774.x"
}