Determination of the socially oriented role of pharmacists in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of patients with viral hepatitis

Viral hepatitis (VH) is one of the most significant medical and social problems worldwide, posing a global threat to public health. The aim of the study was to determine the socially oriented role of pharmacists in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of patients with VH, in particular in the implementation of decentralization of VH diagnostic services in Ukraine. The study was based on statistical reports of the WHO, the Public Health Centre of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, international WHO guidelines on the diagnosis and pharmacotherapy of viral hepatitis, and scientific publications. Results of the study. Taking into account the results of the analysis of world experience and based on the WHO Concept in cooperation with FIP ‘Seven Star Pharmacist’ and its modern interpretation, we have identified the current role of pharmacists in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of patients with VH. Based on the recommendations of the WHO and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, which define the pharmacist as a link in the support of pharmacotherapy for patients with VH, a model of information and advisory pharmaceutical service is proposed, which provides for the involvement of resources of the state and regional levels at the stages of need assessment, planning and control of the service, resources of health care facilities and pharmacies, and the stages of planning and implementation of the pharmaceutical service. Noting the successful international experience and peculiarities of modern pharmaceutical care provided to patients with hypertension, we propose an adapted model of patient-pharmacist-physician interaction. This model is based on the fact that the pharmacist is one of the professional implementers of the state policy on providing the population of Ukraine with medicines and medical devices, and through the implementation of interaction with the patient and the doctor, based on the basic principles we have developed. Thus, the analysis of approaches to defining the socially oriented role of pharmacists in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of patients with hypertension has become the basis for the development of models for the provision of information and advisory pharmaceutical services and a model of patient-pharmacist-physician interaction. Conclusions. The implementation of the model of information and advisory pharmaceutical service and the model of patient-pharmacist-physician interaction in practice will facilitate the timely detection of threatening symptoms of a socially dangerous disease and, accordingly, the diagnosis of potential VH patients and their visit to a doctor and, as a result, will be a way to prevent irrational self-medication and ensure timely, economically justified pharmacotherapy for this category of patients