Introduction to health care delivery : a primer for pharmacists

Main Author: McCarthy
Other Authors: Schafermeyer,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007.
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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