La santé publique et le pharmacien : des enjeux primordiaux de formation

Public health aims at preventing, promoting and restoring populations' health. As a public health actor, the chemist must be aware of the collective and social dimension of health problems. Moreover, in the exercise of his/her duties, the chemist has specific public health actions either in a dispensary, or in a hospital, or in industries or in new trades related to risk assessment. To fulfil these needs, public health teaching tries to pass on both a knowledge, an ability and a method. Lectures given all along the pharmaceutical formation will be presented. Concerning research and experts' report in public health, pharmacoepidemiology and environmental risks assessment and management are the most suitable fields for chemists' intervention.