The Pharmacist Is In: The Availability and Distribution of French-Speaking Pharmacists in Ontario
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Waite, Nancy
Houle, Sherilyn
Violette, Richard
Gauthier, Alain P
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Francophones are an official language minority in Ontario with limited access to linguistically concordant healthcare services. Although communication is an important skill in the field of pharmacy, little is known about the availability of French-speaking pharmacists. This secondary data analysis of the Ontario College of Pharmacists registry converted weekly hours worked into full-time equivalents (FTEs) and calculated ratios of pharmacist FTEs per 1,000 population. French-speaking pharmacists tended to offer fewer FTEs in communities with a larger concentration of Francophones, particularly in northern and rural areas, a trend that was not observed among English-speaking pharmacists. This maldistribution of French-speaking pharmacists may limit the ability of official language minority patients to receive pharmacy services in their language of choice.
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Linguistic Minorities and Society
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18
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Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice
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Timony, PE; Waite, N; Houle, S; Violette, R; Gauthier, AP, The Pharmacist Is In: The Availability and Distribution of French-Speaking Pharmacists in Ontario, Linguistic Minorities and Society, 2022, 18, pp. 175-196