The community pharmacy practice change towards patient-centered care in Saudi Arabia: a qualitative perspective

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has made tremendous improvements in its health care infrastructure in a short span of time [ 1 ]. Socioeconomic changes in the KSA led to the rise of the middle-class, which means an inevitable increased future demand for health care [ 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Although per capita total healthcare has increased to US$1004 in 2015 and the total health expenditure is predicted to increase in the US$44 billion by 2019, growing lifestyle diseases had become a major challenge for the government of the KSA [ 5 , 6 , 7 ]. Consequently, there is an increased burden on the Ministry of Health (MoH) to provide primary health care, and the shortages of trained health care professionals at primary health care settings make the situation more challenging [ 2 , 8 ]. The changing cultural expectation of the need to see a doctor for relatively minor symptoms also increases demand, although arguably not needed [ 1 , 2 , 6 , 7 ].

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