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Pharmacy and the U.S. health care system / Jack E. Fincham, Albert I. Wertheimer, editors.

Title: Pharmacy and the U.S. health care system / Jack E. Fincham, Albert I. Wertheimer, editors.
Publication: New York : Pharmaceutical Products Press, [1998], ©1998.

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xxi, 557 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Health Care System, Second Edition examines and gauges the ramifications of each of these phenomena to clarify the issues at hand. This text will ensure that students, academics, practicing pharmacists, manufacturers, and others are aware of the many dilemmas, opportunities, and challenges facing the pharmacy profession now and in the future.
Increasing levels of accountability, expectations, and role possibilities are enabling pharmacists to make a tremendous impact upon the use and outcomes of drug therapies. In addition, politics, changes in reimbursement and service delivery, prescription benefit programs, trends in managed health care, and dwindling public financial resources are drastically altering the pharmacy and health care environments. Completely revised and updated, Pharmacy and the U.S.

Alternative Title

Pharmacy and the United States health care system

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Contents

Foreword / Richard J. Bertin -- Preface / Jack E. Fincham -- Ch. 1. Introduction / Jack E. Fincham -- Ch. 2. Overview of Health Care in the United States / David M. Scott -- Ch. 3. Financing Health Care in the United States / Lon N. Larson -- Ch. 4. Cost and Utilization Controls / C. E. Reeder -- Ch. 5. Managed Care / Frederic R. Curtiss -- Ch. 6. The Health Professions / Albert I. Wertheimer -- Ch. 7. Pharmacists in the U.S. Health Care System / Craig A. Pedersen -- Ch. 8. Pharmacy Organizations / Joseph Thomas III -- Ch. 9. Emerging Roles for Pharmacists / Kathleen A. Johnson -- Ch. 10. Hospital and Health Care Institutions / Laurence A. Kennedy -- Ch. 11. Pharmacists' Involvement in Nursing Home Facilities and Home Health Care / Marv Shepherd -- Ch. 12. The Pharmaceutical Industry / Patrick L. McKercher -- Ch. 13. Drug Distribution / Sheryl L. Szeinbach -- Ch. 14. The Consumers of Health Care / Barbara A. Adamcik --
Ch. 15. The Drug Use Process / Jack E. Fincham -- Ch. 16. Provision of Care to Subpopulations: A Cultural Perspective / Eucharia E. Nnadi-Okolo -- Ch. 17. Pending Other Issues / Robert D. Salzman and James P. Wilson -- Ch. 18. New Technologies / Rebecca M. Coley and Renato Cataldo.

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97033692

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Columbia University Libraries