Introduction to Health Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists

This textbook provides an overview of the US health care delivery system from the perspective of the pharmacy. In addition to a thorough update of health data and legislation, this second edition includes new chapters on the patient, informatics in health care, health care economics, and pharmacoeconomics. Introduction to Health Care Delivery also addresses new topics, such as the important role of pharmacy technicians and physician assistants, professional pharmacy organizations, care of the uninsured and underinsured, and challenges posed by the rise of consumerism in health care emergence of direct-to-consumer advertising. Lastly, each chapter begins with real-world case studies.Robert L. McCarthy is the author of 'Introduction to Health Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists', published 2001 under ISBN 9780834219359 and ISBN 0834219352.