Consumer Health Care
Editor: Prof. Dr. Marion Schaefer
ISSN 1869-6627
The series Consumer Health Care publishes selected papers that are written for the Master's program Consumer Health Care at the Charité University Clinic Berlin. In doing this, the series aims to make the current state of research available to a broader audience. The series is characterized by its interdisciplinary approach: pharmaceutical and medical topics are connected to questions of health economics, law and ethics. A mutual factor of the papers is the observation of the topics from a consumer point of view. Through this interdisciplinary approach, everyone from pharmaceutical industry, health insurance providers, consulting firms to interested laypersons can profit from the mostly empirical insights of the volumes
The editor:
Professor Dr. Marion Schaefer studied Pharmacy from 1969 to 1973 at the Martin-Luther-Universita in Halle, where she also completed her doctorate. She gained her habilitation at the Humboldt-University Berlin in 1985 and was appointed as a professor for Social Pharmacy.
As chairwoman of the General Pharmacy Group of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG), in 1996 she founded the Workcommunity Pharmaceutical Epidemiology. In 1997, she was a founding member of the support initiative Pharmaceutical Care and oversaw many studies. In 1998, she became a guest professor for Pharmacological epidemiology/Social Pharmacy at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. In 2001, she initiated the Master's Program Consumer Health Care at the Humboldt-University in Berlin and moved the program to the Institute for Clinical Pharmacology of the Medical Department of the Charité. Professor Schaefer is president of the Section of Administrative F.I.P. since 2006 and is a member of the scientific counsel at the Federal Insurance Bureau for the morbidity-oriented risk structure balance since 2009.
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