Psychiatria pre prax 1/2001

Pharmacoeconomy, patients and psychiatrists

Health care systems all over the world have been experiencing conflict between potential abilities to provide as wide services as possible and capabilities of their financing. In Czech Republic this disproportion has been particularly striking in recent years. Pharmacoeconomic studies could be helpful in more efficient location of financial resources in health care system despite their imperfections.

Keywords: health care system, psychiatry, expensiveness, drugs, pharmacoeconomics.