Education about Medicine through Little Pharmacist Training for Children on Bromo Island Village
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The development and empowerment of health education programs and health services at school age, especially at the elementary school level has begun to develop, this program of introduction to the world of health is important to be given to children from an early age. There are various ways that skills can be used to introduce pharmaceutical science about medicine to children. Community service activities have been carried out at Langgar Biqudratillah Tanjung Pandan Bromo Island Village RT 05. The method of this activity is by using the storytelling method and the use of media in the form of posters and greeting cards so as to give children memory about drugs, types of and forms of medicine, how to use medicine, skills on how to wrap powder and more familiarity with the pharmacist profession. The results of this activity received a positive response where the children before getting this activity were less familiar with medicine and the pharmacist profession. After being given this activity, they became more familiar with medicine and the pharmacist profession
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