Concept information
Preferred term
drug therapy
Definition
- Chemical and biological substances administered to prevent or cure disease. The focus of much sociological research is on examining the interface between the objectives of the drug companies to maximize their income and the needs of the population to have access to well tested products (Davis, P. (1997) Managing Medicines: Public Policy and Therapeutic Drug. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Drug Therapy]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anticancer polychemotherapy
- biotherapy
- computer-assisted drug therapy
- drug prescriptions
- electrochemotherapy
- fluid therapy
- home infusion therapy
- hormone replacement therapy
- immunotherapy
- inappropriate prescribing
- medication errors
- nicotine replacement therapy
- orthomolecular therapy
- psychiatric drug therapy
- self-administration
- self-medication
Belongs to group
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CKX5F9BM-B
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