Introduction to health care delivery : a primer for pharmacists - McCarthy; Schafermeyer (Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007)
Health care delivery in America: historical and policy perspectives -- Health care professionals and interdisciplinary care -- The pharmacist and the pharmacy profession -- The patient -- Drug use, access, the pharmaceutical industry, and supply chain in the United States -- Hospitals -- Ambulatory care -- Long-term care -- Mental health services delivery -- Home care -- Informatics in health care -- Basic economic principles affecting health care -- Unique aspects of health economics -- Private health insurance -- Government involvement in health care -- Managed health care -- Medicare and Medicaid -- Pharmacoeconomics -- International health care services -- Health care reform
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Medical care -- -- United States; Pharmaceutical services -- -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- -- United States; Drug Industry -- -- United States; Economics, Pharmaceutical -- -- United States