The pharmaceutical workforce provides a great asset for the delivery of primary health care (PHC) to people seeking advice for common, acute and long-term conditions. The workforce makes significant contributions to PHC and the associated delivery of universal health coverage (UHC) through: supplying safe and effective, quality medicines and other health products; managing the effective and safe use of medicines; safeguarding against falsified and substandard medicines; offering health promotion and disease prevention counselling and related services; empowering communities through health literacy support, risk assessment and disease screening; administering medicines and vaccinations; and improving medicines adherence and optimisation.
The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) was among the participants in the UN-WHO Global Conference on Primary Health Care in 2018 in Kazakhstan, ensuring the role of the pharmaceutical workforce was evident and imperative. There, FIP endorsed the Declaration of Astana, renewing its professional and political focus on strengthening PHC and ensuring the contribution of the profession of pharmacy in PHC and UHC.
FIP has developed the “FIP Primary Health Care Digital Toolkit”, which builds on the principles of the Declaration of Astana, the WHO-UNICEF Operational Framework for Primary Health Care and the FIP Development Goals, with the aim of strengthening and advancing the capacity of the pharmaceutical workforce to contribute to the global health agenda of UHC and the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The WHO-UNICEF operational framework proposes 14 levers that are categorised into 10 operational and 4 core strategic levers. For each of the levers of this operational framework for PHC, you will be able to explore FIP’s publications, digital events and other FIP programme areas that have been developed following the Declaration of Astana in 2018.
You can access the resources by clicking each of the levers below: