Global Health Systems & Access

This collection highlights my writing on global health systems and access to care, with a focus on how economic, structural, and regulatory factors shape healthcare delivery across diverse regions.

Exploring Community Pharmacy Practice in Canada

Community pharmacies are those that dispense medications to patients who aren’t hospitalized or in nursing facilities. This series explores how community pharmacy practice differs around the world. In doing so, it gives us the opportunity to view our own system in a new light and possibly find opportunities for improvement.

We’ve covered the globe, exploring the practice of pharmacy in countries across continents, from Japan and Australia to Argentina and Finland. Here, we’ll look at community pharmacy practice in our next door neighbor, Canada.

Exploring the Structure of England’s Pharmacies

Community pharmacies are those that dispense medications to patients who aren’t hospitalized or in nursing facilities. This series explores how community pharmacy practice differs around the world. In doing so, it gives us the opportunity to view our own system in a new light and potentially find opportunities for improvement. We’ve crossed the globe, covering countries as diverse as Japan, Australia, and Switzerland.

A Look at the Community Pharmacy Structure in Australia

Community pharmacies are those that dispense medications to patients who are not hospitalized or in nursing facilities, and this series explores how community pharmacy practice differs around the world. This gives us the opportunity to view the American pharmacy system in a new light and potentially find opportunities for improvement.

So far, we have looked at Japan’s pharmacy system as well as that of Finland. In this post, we’ll look at one of the most-studied healthcare systems from an American perspective: Australia’s.