This article explores the impact of intensive competition within the pharmaceutical industry and among private providers on health care in an Indian city. In-depth interviewing and clinical observation were used over a period of 18 months. Private practitioners and chemists who provided regular services to inhabitants of a poor neighborhood in central Bhubaneswar were included. Fierce competiti...

The fact that resources for health care are limited has been found as a rationale for the development of pharmacoeconomics. Pharmacoeconomic analysis identifies, measures and compares the costs and the economic, clinical and humanistic outcomes of diseases, drug therapies and programmes directed to these diseases. As health care expenditures have escalated over the past decades, the number of i...

Pharmaceutical services are exclusive and responsible to patients related the use of pharmaceutical preparations. have goal being able achieve definite results in order improve quality life patients. The pharmacy was established as a service facility that provides medicines medical devices with guaranteed safety. Clinical core practice services, especially by pharmacists who for pharmacies. Thi...