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Improve your patient’s health through a fresh view of their behaviors Patients who use over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medicine often do not take the drugs as intended, sometimes to the detriment to their health and well-being. These widespread problems cause health professionals to agonize over how to try to make sure patients comply with medication instructions. Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities tackles this tough issue by exploring in detail the range of noncompliance behavior, the negative impacts the behavior has on patients as well as society at large, and practical ways to influence people to take their medicine for optimum health. Respected pharmacist and author Jack Fincham and other noted experts provide insights, surprising data, and effective solutions to a challenge nearly all health professionals encounter. Patients often use drugs they get from a multitude of sources, making the capability of monitoring drug use difficult. Other problems can also interfere with a patient’s health, such as a patient borrowing drugs from family or friendsor even not taking them at all simply because he or she are unable to pay for them. Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities goes beyond the standard pat explanations and mostly ineffective quick solutions usually offered for the complicated noncompliance issue. Leading authorities describe the range of reasons for a patient’s behavior and provide practical strategies that strike at the root of the problem. Helpful tables, figures, and extensive references are also included. Topics in Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities include: the prevalence of noncompliance costs of noncompliance drug therapies that lead to noncompliance measuring compliance models to evaluate patient compliance evaluation methods ethical considerations health professionals’ roles in compliance disease state management future considerations much more Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities is insightful, crucial information for health professionals, educators, and students.

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Dr. Jack E. Fincham is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Pharmacy and was a Kellogg Pharmaceutical Clinical Scientist Fellow at the University of Minnesota where he obtained his PhD in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. Dr. Fincham has completed a Post Graduate Certificate Degree in Health Economics at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Dr. Fincham has held academic, research, and administrative positions at several Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy. He has researched varying topics pertaining to patient compliance, medication management, the Medicare drug benefit, smoking cessation, and health economics. Dr. Fincham currently serves as the A. W. Jowdy Professor of Pharmacy Care at the UGA College of Pharmacy and Professor of Public Health in the UGA College of Public Health. He is a member of the University of Georgia Teaching Academy. From 1994 to 2004, Dr. Fincham served as dean of the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy. Dr. Fincham has authored over 200 refereed and professional manuscripts published in sixty journals. He has made over 200 professional and research presentations to allied health, dental, medical, information technology, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, and public health professional groups from Vietnam, China, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has edited and written ten books. Dr. Fincham is the founding editor of the Journal of Public Health Pharmacy and serves as the associate editor of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. Dr. Fincham authored Taking Your Medicine: A Guide to Medication Regimens and Compliance for Patients and Caregivers, published by The Haworth Press (www.takingyourmedicine.com). This book has been listed as one of the “Best consumer health books of 2005” by Library Journal. He has recently completed the book: The Medicare Part D Program: Making the Most of the Benefit, published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. Dr. Fincham is an active member of numerous pharmacy, public health, and academic associations. He currently serves as a member of the Nonprescription Drug Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and has served as an advisor for the CMS Medicare Drug Benefit Program from 2003 until 2007. Dr. Fincham is a Fellow in the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, a member of Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the Rho Chi Pharmaceutical Honor Society, and the Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society. In 1997, he was named the recipient of the Faculty Excellence in Pharmacy Administration Award by the National Community Pharmacists Association. Also in 1997, he was given the Dean’s Award for Sustained Contributions to Community Pharmacy Practice by the American College of Apothecaries. In 1998, he was listed as one of the top fifty most influential pharmacists in the United States by Drug Topics magazine.

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