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The Relationship between the Financial Status of Sole Community Independent Pharmacies and Their Broader Involvement with Other Rural Providers
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Radford, Andrea; Slifkin, Rebecca; King, Jennifer; Lampman, Michelle; Richardson, Indira; Rutledge, Steve – Journal of Rural Health, 2011
Purpose: To document sole community pharmacists' involvement with other local health care organizations, these pharmacies' current financial status, and to determine whether financial position was associated with the provision of pharmacy services to other local health care providers. Methods: We conducted semistructured interviews with…
Descriptors: Health Services, Pharmacy, Correlation, Economic Factors
Redefining the Role of the Pharmacist: Medication Therapy Management
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Hilsenrath, Peter; Woelfel, Joseph; Shek, Allen; Ordanza, Katrina – Journal of Rural Health, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore better use of pharmacists in rural communities as a partial solution to scarcity of physicians and other health care providers. It discusses expected reduction in public subsidies for rural health care and the changing market for pharmacists. The paper emphasizes the use of pharmacists as a backdrop…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Economics, Financial Support, Patients
Positive Attitude Change toward Psychiatry in Pharmacy Students Following an Active Learning Psychopharmacology Course
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Einat, Haim; George, Angela – Academic Psychiatry, 2008
Objective: Psychiatric care in many rural communities has been demonstrated to be less adequate compared with urban environments partially because of attitudes and stigmatization issues. Educated pharmacists with professional attitudes can have a major impact in helping mental health patients receive more accurate diagnostic assessments and safe…
Descriptors: Pharmaceutical Education, Elective Courses, Student Attitudes, Course Objectives
Understanding the Impacts of the Medicare Modernization Act: Concerns of Congressional Staff
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Mueller, Keith J.; Coburn, Andrew F.; MacKinney, A. Clinton; McBride, Timothy D.; Slifkin, Rebecca T.; Wakefield, Mary K. – Journal of Rural Health, 2005
Sweeping changes to the Medicare program embodied in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), including a new prescription drug benefit, changes in payment policies, and reform of the Medicare managed-care program, have major implications for rural health care. The most efficient mechanism for research to…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Policy, Access to Health Care, Pharmacy
Selected Bibliographies for Pharmaceutical Supply Systems. Volume 5: Pharmaceutical Supply Systems Bibliographies. International Health Planning Reference Series.
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Schaumann, Leif – 1979
Intended as a companion piece to volume 7 in the Method Series, Pharmaceutical Supply System Planning (CE 024 234), this fifth of six volumes in the International Health Planning Reference Series is a combined literature review and annotated bibliography dealing with alternative methodologies for planning and analyzing pharmaceutical supply…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Delivery Systems, Developing Nations, Evaluation
Rural Health Abstracts and Citations 1980-1987. Part II: Indian Health Care.
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North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks. Center for Rural Health. – 1988
Over 300 articles concerning rural health as it pertains to American Indians and Alaska Natives are cited in this bibliography. Most of the articles were published between 1980 and 1988. Abstracts are reprinted verbatim and the bibliography is organized into sections by subject matter. Within each section, annotated citations are listed…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Alcoholism, American Indians, Birth