Abstract
The article proved that pharmaceutical tourism has been developed during a long period of time as an essen-tial part of medical tourism. The defined forms of activity have an integral character and contribute to the in-crease of the level of accessibility and quality of medical and pharmaceutical aid to the population outside their regular place of residence. The preconditions for activation the development of medical tourism and the necessity of being regarded as an independent activity of pharmaceutical tourism have been determined. In-stitutional components of pharmaceutical tourism (a subject, objects, subjects, forms of organization) have been outlined and described as well as the functions, which can be used on two levels: on the level of the government and the society, and in the system of pharmaceutical provision of the population and healthcare in general. The integral and dualistic character of pharmaceutical tourism as a modern activity in the system of healthcare has been substantiated. Taking into account modern tendencies as to globalization of national economics, imperfection of mechanisms of government regulation of the level of accessibility of pharmaceu-tical aid, increase of gap between different countries, groups of population or patients in the resource provi-sion of national systems of healthcare, the need for the development of medical and pharmaceutical tourism will continue in the future. It promotes the development of a complex program of their implementation in Ukraine.
Highlights
At the end of the last century, the processes of globalization have been consolidated almost in all spheres of social and economic activity of the society
As a result of the development of the above-mentioned tendencies, medical tourism is being regarded as a socially-important and an integral form of activity, which became an alternative for some spheres of the population on the way to overcoming a low level of accessibility or quality of pharmaceutical aid and pharmaceutical services
Classical definition of medical tourism means a set of measures directed on increasing the level of meeting the needs of the population in providing efficient pharmaceutical aid and pharmaceutical services to the consumers outside their regular place of residence [1,2,3]
Summary
At the end of the last century, the processes of globalization have been consolidated almost in all spheres of social and economic activity of the society. Under the condition of the growth of pharmaceutical market and the increase of tendencies as to commercialization in the Healthcare System, in pharmacies while providing services, pharmacists solve the most actual problems, which deal with the formation of the level of accessibility of the population to efficient drugs as regulators of relations between the consumers, drugs manufacturers, pharmacies. Under these conditions, the issue of providing pharmaceutical aid and pharmaceutical services to people, who are temporarily residing in Ukraine, needs to be regarded in order to get a complex of recreational or therapeutic diagnostic and therapeutic cosmetic, dental services. The above-stated information determined the main goal of the research
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
