Topics for our times: managed care and public health opportunities.

Women’s Health: Issues and Opportunities for Managed Care Pharmacy

raditionally, discussions of women’s health were limited to conditions that are unique to women, such as contraception, fertility, and menopause. Yet very little was known about even these issues, as illustrated by an article written in 1967, which described menopause as a chronic and incapacitating deficiency disease. A menopausal woman was considered a castrate, with all the inherent physical...

Public health and managed care: a California perspective.

Designing a managed care model for emerging respiratory infectious diseases in the Iranian health care system

Background and Aim: The purpose of this study is to design a model of managed care for emerging respiratory infectious diseases in the Iranian health care system in 1399. Methods: To achieve this goal, first the effective factors and indicators affecting the managed care model for emerging respiratory infectious diseases are identified based on content analysis technique and then these factors...

The devolution of managed care contractor duties: analysis and implications for public policy in managed behavioral health care.

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Competing interests: public-sector managed behavioral health care.