This will be possible thanks to the collaboration agreement signed between the Andalusian Council of Official Pharmaceutical Colleges and Johnson & Amp; Johnson.
Andalusia Pharmacy offices will be able to offer more global and higher quality assistance to diabetic people by the Diabetes Campus, an 'online' and free -use initiative carried out with the collaboration of Johnson & Amp; Johnson,that will allow community pharmacists to access continuous, updated and accredited training on diabetes, and thus agilely improve their knowledge and skills in the active approach of this chronic pathology, which only in the Andalusian autonomous community affects 15.3 percentof the population, above the national average (13.8%).
Thanks to the collaboration agreement signed by the Andalusian Council of Official Pharmaceutical Colleges (CACOF) and the aforementioned laboratory, Andalusian pharmacists will have the possibility of free access to the Campus Diabetes tool (accredited by the Professional Professional Training CommissionHealth), which consists of different training modules with content based on the latest scientific evidence about this disease and that have the endorsement of the SED Foundation of the Spanish Diabetes Society.
According to a statement, in a complementary way, and by virtue of this agreement signed between the Cacof and Johnson & Amp; Johnson, face -to -face sessions will be held soon in the different provincial schools in which training will be offered related to the approach of diabetes from the areas from the areas from the areas from the areasof pharmacotherapy, methods of control and promotion of health and use of new digital tools.
"The Community Pharmacy is the closest and most accessible health space for the population. Daily there are thousands of people who consult their health, so we must have the best possible training, more if possible before a chronic disease asDiabetes, which requires continued care and whose patients are usual of our pharmacies.Better assistance, "said Cacof president, Antonio Mingorance.
"From the hand of this initiative we ensure continuous, updated and accredited training, which enables community pharmacists to acquire skills and attitudes that will result in a professional council and a higher quality assistance work for the benefit of patients," he saidFrancisco Javier García, by Johnson & Amp; Johnson.
Community Pharmacy and Diabetes
The capillarity, accessibility and proximity of the Andalusian Pharmacy Offices Netof the most prevalent pathologies today and that only in the Andalusian autonomous community could affect more than 1.2 million people in the next decade.
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Andalusia is close to 14 percent, considering that not even eight percent is aware of it and the one that rest does not know that he suffers it.The trend of the future in Spain, as in the countries around the surroundings, is that cases of this type of diabetes increase although the non -diagnosed cases descend.
Despite the latter, it should be noted that a recent study, conducted by the International Diabetes Federation estimated that 70 percent of cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented or delayed with a healthy eating and performing physical exercise.