The “NACDS 2023” Initiative: Innovating Health & Wellness

80%

Americans Support Pharmacists’ Role in Health & Wellness

support a role for pharmacists in helping patients to understand their nutritional choices and a role for pharmacists in helping patients prevent chronic disease such as heart disease and diabetes.

Americans Support Pharmacists’ Role in Health and Wellness

80%

support a role for pharmacists in helping patients to understand their nutritional choices and a role for pharmacists in helping patients prevent chronic disease such as heart disease and diabetes.

Morning Consult conducted this poll between December 7-December 12, 2022, among a sample of 20,010 Adults. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of Adults based on gender, age, race, educational attainment, and region. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage points. NACDS commissioned the poll.

The “NACDS 2023” Initiative is the health and wellness innovation platform of NACDS. It keeps pharmacy at the core. Yet it expands to broader health and wellness opportunities throughout the store and beyond.

“Pharmacy Plus” Means:

Nutrition Education

There is growing proof of the connection between the foods you eat and your health and well-being. Eating more nutritious foods can help reduce your risk of diet-related heart diseases, diabetes, and many types of cancer.

Food Is Medicine

NACDS is advancing “food is medicine” – which recognizes the potential of food to help prevent and manage chronic diseases. Here, NACDS Chair Mike Wysong, CEO of CARE Pharmacies, engages in a related event at Tufts University.

Data to Drive Services

NACDS is boosting the focus on pharmacy data interoperability. A Leavitt Partners report shows the importance of data-sharing to unleash pharmacist-provided services – which improve patient access and outcomes.

Go Deeper – NACDS’ Engagement in the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

The 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health was the first of its kind in 50 years. NACDS chose this moment to accelerate its engagement in broad health and wellness topics, from the pharmacy, to the total store, and beyond.

NACDS President & CEO Steven C. Anderson, FASAE, CAE, IOM

What collaborators said at the NACDS “satellite event”

NACDS’ seven-year collaboration with the Arlington Food Assistance Center