Trigger Point – Self-medication: Patients in white coats
1. Pharmacon 2007 European Congress on Future of Pharmacy New Technologies and Trends in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Industry and Education Dubrovnik – 26 May 2007 Trigger Point – Self-medication: Patients in white coats Dr Hubertus Cranz Director General Association of the European Self-Medication Industry (AESGP) 7, avenue de Tervuren – B-1040 Brussels – Belgium Tel: +32 2 735 51 30 Fax: +32 2 735 52 22 info@aesgp.be www.aesgp.be
2. Total Non Prescription Bound Prescription Bound * * prescription necessary by law to receive a product Prescribed by a medical doctor Bought without Prescription Structure of the pharmaceutical market So called Semi- Ethicals Self-Medication
3. STUDY ON EUROPEAN CONSUMER ATTITUDES ON SELF MEDICATION PRODUCTS PURCHASED AT PHARMACIES
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5. 20 pharmacies (urban/suburb) in each of 6 European countries were selected for the study. IPSOS staff interviewed, by pen and paper questionnaires, 1,268 people who purchased a self medication product as they exited those pharmacies: Sampling error at 9 5 % significance at total level E(1268)= +/- 2.8%; E( 2 00)=+/- 7 % in each country .
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13. Cooperation with Pharmacists PGEU = Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union, umbrella organisation of Community pharmacists in Europe Update of the PGEU/AESGP Charter of Collaboration 2004 PGEU/AESGP Workshop “How appropriate presentation of non-prescription medicines enhances the role of the pharmacist” 2002 PGEU/AESGP Collaboration in TESEMED, an EU sponsored project on telematic systems for responsible self-medication in pharmacies 1998-2000 Joint symposium on the visibility of non-prescription medicines in pharmacies 1998 Joint meetings with the representation of medical doctors 1996 & 1997 First joint symposium PGEU/AESGP 1994 PGEU/AESGP Charter of Collaboration signed 1993
14. Cooperation with Medical Doctors CPME = Comité Permanent des Médecins Européens / Standing Committee of European Doctors, umbrella organisation of medical doctors in Europe Joint project with the World Medical Association: “From Patient to Self-Health Manager” 2006 Involvement of CPME in the AESGP study on new indications for self-medication and related information medicines 2001-2002 Joint brochure with CPME with the support of the European Commission 1997
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19. THE ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH VALUE OF SELF-MEDICATION AESGP study on the Economic and Public Health Value of Self-Medication http://www.aesgp.be/ephv/2004study.pdf
