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Factors Contributing to Pharmacies With Good Disaster Preparedness and the Activities of Their Prefectural Pharmaceutical Association: Pharmacies’ resilience and associations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2024

Kayoko Ozeki Open the ORCID record for Kayoko Ozeki [Opens in a new window]  and
Toshiyuki Ojima Open the ORCID record for Toshiyuki Ojima [Opens in a new window]
Kayoko Ozeki*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Pharmacy Practice and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Aichi Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
Toshiyuki Ojima
Affiliation:
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
*
Corresponding author: Kayoko Ozeki; Email: kozeki@dpc.agu.ac.jp
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Abstract

Objective:

Pharmacies have a particularly important responsibility to supply medicine to disaster victims in order to save lives. This study investigated the characteristics of pharmacies that are well prepared for disasters as well as the efforts of the prefectural pharmaceutical association (PPA) to which the pharmacies belong.

Methods:

Questionnaires on matters related to disaster preparedness were mailed to 50 randomly selected pharmacies in each of Japan’s 47 prefectures as well as all 47 PPAs in Japan. Logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the association of pharmacy background and the activities of the PPA to which they belong with pharmacy disaster preparedness as well as the association with pharmacies’ awareness of disaster preparedness.

Results:

Pharmacies in prefectures that conducted disaster preparedness training at least three times a year were better prepared for disasters. In addition, pharmacies with high online utilization and high disaster-preparedness awareness were significantly more prepared for disasters.

Conclusions:

Pharmacies that can promptly provide medicine to disaster victims are considered to be well-prepared for disasters. The results suggest that pharmacy preparedness is also influenced by the disaster preparedness activities of their prefectures.

Keywords

pharmacydisaster preparednessprefectural pharmaceutical association
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 18 , 2024 , e22
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc

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