Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and readiness of community pharmacists practising in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal to the National Health Insurance in South Africa.

The study’s objective was to assess Community Pharmacists’ perceived barriers and disadvantages in providing health promotion services in Jos, Nigeria. The study was conducted among consenting Community Pharmacists in Jos Metropolis with the aid of a pretested structured questionnaire. It was a descriptive cross sectional survey of 70 Community Pharmacists out of 78 registered as at the time of sampling. Data was collated and analysed using the Epi-InfoTMVersion 7.1.4 and SPSS Version 16. Descriptive statistics of the participants was done using Means, and Percentages. Chi-square test of goodness of fit was used to determine if there was a specific pattern in the observed responses of the study participants and if this differed significantly from the expected responses of a standardized population. Logistic regression test was used to determine whether baseline characteristics of study participants had any predictive value on participants’ perceptions of disadvantages and barriers. The mean age of the participants was 39 years and most of the study group was within the age group of 31-40 years.  The following were the barriers identified in this study: not enough time, lack of standard practice guidelines, ownership of premises by non-pharmacists, insufficient management support, poor perception of their roles by the community and low profitability. Disadvantages according to this study are: need for continuous training of Community Pharmacists in health promotion services and need to hire more staff. The findings of this study identified a number of organizational barriers and disadvantages that may limit the involvement of the Community Pharmacists in health promotion services. This suggests that in the development of future Public Health programs in Nigeria, efforts must be made to overcome these barriers and disadvantages by employing adequate policies and tools in order to optimize the Community Pharmacists’ contributions towards improving public health indices.

Assessment of Community Pharmacists’ Perceived Barriers and Disadvantages in Providing Health Promotion Services in Jos, Nigeria

The growing number of published articles indexed in a database such as Scopus suggests the increasing number of high-quality research and current interests that are relevant to a particular discourse. However, bibliometric studies identified that the pattern of journal articles published on Islamic estate planning in relation to Malaysian Muslim market in the Scopus database are still limited and given less attention. Therefore, this study seeks to identify the pattern of the published articles that have been indexed by Scopus specifically on Islamic estate planning instruments such as waqf, takaful, Islamic inheritance (farāid), gifts, trust, and will. This article is based on bibliometric analysis and focuses on all Islamic estate planning instruments in Islam. The data obtained from the Scopus database are then analysed thematically using ATLAS.ti 8 and VOSviewer software. The bibliometric analysis found 397 publications from Malaysia, which encompass articles, proceedings, book chapters, and book series. Nonetheless, there are only 324 relevant articles that had been analysed to establish the theme of the study. Meanwhile, the waqf instrument has become the most popular topic debated among researchers from Malaysia. All the articles are obtained from the Scopus database only by using keywords related to the instruments of Islamic estate planning. This study only focuses on Malaysian affiliates for 7 years, from 2015 to 2021. Therefore, more studies need to be done with any other indexing and high-quality research databases such as Web of Science (WoS) and related Islamic estate planning and marketing articles to achieve a better and more comprehensive analysis of research publications. In conclusion, this study provides a better information thematically through the frequency of publication by instruments, frequency of publication year, number of authors, language, publication format, list of journals, affiliation, and types of collaboration. This guideline is useful for researchers carrying out research on Islamic estate planning in the realm of Islamic marketing indexed in Scopus. In fact, the important result of this study will provide insightful bibliometric analysis and assist in identifying current interest in Islamic estate planning instruments with special reference to the Malaysian Muslim consumers' context.

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Naima Nasir

Papers

Assessment of Community Pharmacists’ Perceived Barriers and Disadvantages in Providing Health Promotion Services in Jos, Nigeria

The viability of Islamic estate planning in Malaysian Muslim market: A bibliometric analysis indexed by Scopus from 2015 to 2021