Increasing coverage of vaccination by pharmacists in Nigeria; an urgent need

Wada, Y.H., Musa, M.K., Ekpenyong, A., Adebisi, Y.A. , Musa, M.B. and Khalid, G.M. (2021) Increasing coverage of vaccination by pharmacists in Nigeria; an urgent need. Public Health in Practice, 2, 100148. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100148) (PMID:36101639) (PMCID:PMC9461555)

Abstract

Pharmacists have a key role to play to advance public health through immunization. Pharmacists are well trained and play a huge role in vaccine production, research and development, safety, pharmacovigilance, storage, logistics and distribution. There is a need for a revised national policy and strategy in Nigeria on vaccination and immunization programs with the involvement of community pharmacies and/or pharmacists. This will help accelerate getting a wider vaccination access coverage, establishing a greater healthcare delivery workforce for societal benefits and demonstrate the full potential of the community pharmacies and the pharmacists’ role in immunization programs.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo
• Authors: Wada, Y.H., Musa, M.K., Ekpenyong, A., Adebisi, Y.A., Musa, M.B., and Khalid, G.M.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences
• Journal Name: Public Health in Practice
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 2666-5352
• ISSN (Online): 2666-5352
• Published Online: 05 June 2021
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Royal Society for Public Health
• First Published: First published in Public Health in Practice 2:100148
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence