GSCF’s Alan Main: Industry-Pharmacy Collaboration Key To Promoting Self-Care
Collaboration between industry and pharmacists is crucial in furthering self-care internationally and empowering consumers to self-care responsibly, according to the Global Self-Care Federation’s chairman Alan Main.
Commenting on the publication of a new joint statement between GSCF and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Main told HBW Insight that the collaboration would “not only assist both organisations in progressing common agendas” but would also “contribute to delivering better health outcomes for all.”
Given the “pace of change” in the global self-care industry, as well as the “increased prominence of self-care as a key contributor to an improved quality of life, to reducing individual and national economic health burdens, and to providing individuals with the ability to take their healthcare into their own hands,” GSCF and FIP “expressed a joint interest” in updating a previous statement issued in over 20 years ago, Main said.
