01642pamaa2200265 4500 0000043872 20140428090000.0 080708 eng 0763743534 RA395.A3 MCC 2007 McCarthy Introduction to health care delivery : a primer for pharmacists Robert L. McCarthy, Kenneth W. Schafermeyer. 4th ed. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007. xxv, 629 p.: ill.; 26 cm. SOP Includes bibliographical references and index 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 Medical care -- United States Pharmaceutical services -- United States Delivery of Health Care -- United States Drug Industry -- United States Economics, Pharmaceutical -- United States Schafermeyer, Kenneth W. http://www.jbpub.com