The status of licensed pharmacy workforce in Saudi Arabia: a 2030 economic vision perspective

BACKGROUND: The economy of Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing a major transformation which will have an impact on employment in the pharmacy sector. However, quantitative data characterizing the pharmacy workforce in the Kingdom are currently not available. Therefore, the aim of this study was to...

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Autores principales: AlRuthia, Yazed, Alsenaidy, Mohammad A., Alrabiah, Haitham K., AlMuhaisen, Abdullah, Alshehri, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29954408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-018-0294-8
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author AlRuthia, Yazed
Alsenaidy, Mohammad A.
Alrabiah, Haitham K.
AlMuhaisen, Abdullah
Alshehri, Mohammad
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description BACKGROUND: The economy of Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing a major transformation which will have an impact on employment in the pharmacy sector. However, quantitative data characterizing the pharmacy workforce in the Kingdom are currently not available. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the current status of the licensed pharmacy workforce in the pharmacy field in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: Descriptive statistics were performed on data from the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS) as of March 2017. RESULTS: The labor market for pharmacists in Saudi Arabia is dominated by expatriates. Saudi nationals constitute less than 20% of the pharmacists employed in the Kingdom. The underemployment of Saudis is most evident in the largest sectors of the pharmacy field, namely, private health care establishments, community pharmacies, and pharmaceutical companies. CONCLUSION: There is an unmet need to train Saudi citizens as pharmacists and retain them in the workforce. Addressing this issue should become an important objective in Saudi Arabia’s Vision for 2030.
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spelling pubmed-60222942018-07-09 The status of licensed pharmacy workforce in Saudi Arabia: a 2030 economic vision perspective AlRuthia, Yazed Alsenaidy, Mohammad A. Alrabiah, Haitham K. AlMuhaisen, Abdullah Alshehri, Mohammad Hum Resour Health Research BACKGROUND: The economy of Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing a major transformation which will have an impact on employment in the pharmacy sector. However, quantitative data characterizing the pharmacy workforce in the Kingdom are currently not available. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the current status of the licensed pharmacy workforce in the pharmacy field in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: Descriptive statistics were performed on data from the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS) as of March 2017. RESULTS: The labor market for pharmacists in Saudi Arabia is dominated by expatriates. Saudi nationals constitute less than 20% of the pharmacists employed in the Kingdom. The underemployment of Saudis is most evident in the largest sectors of the pharmacy field, namely, private health care establishments, community pharmacies, and pharmaceutical companies. CONCLUSION: There is an unmet need to train Saudi citizens as pharmacists and retain them in the workforce. Addressing this issue should become an important objective in Saudi Arabia’s Vision for 2030. BioMed Central 2018-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6022294/ /pubmed/29954408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-018-0294-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Alrabiah, Haitham K.
AlMuhaisen, Abdullah
Alshehri, Mohammad
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29954408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-018-0294-8
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