Analysis of the attitude of pharmacy specialists towards the current social protection system and directions for its reformation

M V Zarichkova

doi:10.24959/nphj.15.2001

Abstract

The social status of pharmacy specialists (PhS) of the wholesale and retail branch of the pharmaceutical industry of Ukraine and their attitude towards the current social protection (SP) system have been analysed. The possibilities of PhS to gain social protection at their workplace, participate in social programmes and offers to reform the current SP system have been studied. It has been found that civil and self-regulating organisations in the system of social protection of pharmacy specialists (SPPhS) are of primary importance. This will enable to improve relations between participants of SPPhS and affect efficiently the solution of disputes between a PhS and an employer. For this purpose it has been offered to assign an authorised person who is responsible for social issues in the labour collective of pharmaceutical institutions of all types of ownership. The software application ADPQ_(SPPhS) (Automatic data processing questionnaires (the attitude to the current social protection for pharmacy specialists (SPPhS)) has been developed for the first time with the purpose of processing the results of SPPhS research of the wholesale and retail branch of the pharmaceutical industry of Ukraine. The pharmaceutical industry is important and it is one of the strategic sectors of the economy of Ukraine because it is responsible for health of the nation and provision of the population with medicines and medical supplies. Taking into account the fact that work of pharmacy specialists (PhS) is associated with emotional tension during all working hours (a human factor), and that they deal with different categories of medicines (narcotic, toxic, potent, radioactive, the plant medicinal raw material, etc.), which can cause a threat to health (occupational diseases), employees of the pharmaceutical industry need special

Highlights

Our study was conducted in two phases; thereby contributed to obtaining more detailed information from PhS – potential consumers of social services at wholesale and retail enterprises of the pharmaceutical industry of Ukraine
The first phase was devoted to determination of the social status of the PhS interviewed and their positioning in the SP system of Ukraine
SP system, their ability to be assisted at their workplace, participation in social programmes and identification of the offers concerning the reformation of the current system of SPPhS

Summary

National University of Pharmacy

It has been found that civil and self-regulating organisations in the system of social protection of pharmacy specialists (SPPhS) are of primary importance This will enable to improve relations between participants of SPPhS and affect efficiently the solution of disputes between a PhS and an employer. Today social protection of pharmacy specialists (SPPhS) is implemented in the system of SP of the population, but there is no separate state regulation of SPPhS This caused conducting a sociological study of PhS of the wholesale and retail branch of the pharmaceutical industry of Ukraine to determine their social status and attitude towards the current system of SP [1,2,3,4, 9, 10].

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