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Basic Disaster Preparedness of Rural Community Pharmacies in 5 States
Paul J Henkel1, Marketa Marvanova2
1Department of Historical and Geographic Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
Objectives:
The aim of this study was to investigate the basic preparedness of rural community pharmacies to continue operations during and immediately following a disaster.
Methods:
In 2014, we conducted a telephone survey (N = 990) of community pharmacies in 3 rural areas: North Dakota/South Dakota, West Virginia, Southern Oregon/Northern California regarding whether they had a formal disaster/continuity plan, offsite data backup, emergency power generation, and/or had a certified pharmacy immunizer on staff. Logistic regression and chi square were performed using Stata 11.1.
Findings:
Community pharmacies in rural areas (≤50.0 persons/mile2) were less likely to have emergency power (odds ratio [OR] = 0.59; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.32-1.07) or certified pharmacy immunizer on staff (OR = 0.47; 95% CI: 0.34-0.64). Pharmacies in lower income areas were less likely to have emergency power and offsite data backup or a formal disaster plan (OR = 0.70; 95% CI: 0.49-0.99) compared with pharmacies in higher income areas. Community pharmacies in areas of higher percent elderly population were less likely to have emergency power (OR = 0.54; 95% CI: 0.39-0.73), or certified pharmacy immunizer on staff (OR = 0.65; 95% CI: 0.47-0.91) compared with chain pharmacies in areas with lower percent elderly population.
Conclusions:
Being in a rural, low-income, or high-elderly area was associated with lower likelihood of basic preparedness of community pharmacies.
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