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      <journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">archivepp.com</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Archives of Pharmacy Practice</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2320-5210</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">archivepp.com-1246</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.51847/sfXKMD2jpj</article-id>
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          <subject>Original research</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Reconceptualizing Community Pharmacy Practice in Ghana for Strengthened Primary Healthcare and Public Health</article-title>
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                    <contrib-group>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Nortey</surname>
                <given-names>Mark</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                              <xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
                                                            <xref rid="cor1" ref-type="corresp" />
                          </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Felix</surname>
                <given-names>George</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Boahen</surname>
                <given-names>Bridget</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff3" ref-type="aff">3</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Ireland</surname>
                <given-names>Emmanuel</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff4" ref-type="aff">4</xref>
                                        </contrib>
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            <label>1</label>School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff2">
            <label>2</label>African Institute for Global Health Advocacy and Sustainable Development, Accra, Ghana.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff3">
            <label>3</label>Department of Pharmacy, Sunyani Teaching Hospital, Sunyani, Ghana.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff4">
            <label>4</label>Community Practice Pharmacy Association, Accra, Ghana.
          </aff>
                          <author-notes>
            <corresp id="cor1">
              <bold>Address for correspondence:</bold> Prof. Wael Abu Dayyih, Department of
              Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mutah University, Al-Karak 61710, Jordan.
                              E-mail: <email xlink:href="markanum07@gmail.com">markanum07@gmail.com</email>
                          </corresp>
          </author-notes>
                    <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>15</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>17</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>1</fpage>
      <lpage>8</lpage>
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        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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      <abstract>
        <title>A<sc>BSTRACT</sc></title>
        <p>Ghana faces persistent challenges in achieving equitable access to healthcare due to socio-economic and infrastructural limitations. Community pharmacies, widely distributed across the country and trusted within local communities, represent an underused yet strategic platform for strengthening primary healthcare and advancing public health goals.  Within the Ghana Health Service’s Network of Practice model, these pharmacies can function as accessible entry points, complementing hospitals and clinics. This paper draws on an integrative literature review and expert insights from hospital practice, community pharmacy, and global health to propose a conceptual framework for repositioning community pharmacy practice in Ghana. By identifying key contextual and enabling factors such as socio-economic, regulatory, technological, and political that influence practice transformation, the framework emphasizes shifting from traditional product-oriented services to expanded roles in preventive care, health promotion, chronic disease management, and collaboration within primary care networks. Positioning community pharmacies in this way has the potential to reduce healthcare access gaps, enhance continuity of care, and accelerate progress toward universal health coverage. 

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      </abstract>
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                <kwd>Community pharmacy</kwd>
                <kwd>Primary healthcare</kwd>
                <kwd>Collaborative networks</kwd>
                <kwd>Health systems strengthening</kwd>
                <kwd>Ghana</kwd>
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