ANALYSIS OF THE LEVEL OF CONCENTRATION OF PHARMACIES IN UKRAINE
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https://doi.org/10.11603/2312-0967.2021.2.12045Keywords:
pharmacies, pharmacy chains, pharmacy market, concentration, competitionAbstract
The aim of the work. To analyze the level of concentration of pharmacies in Ukraine by territorial and demographic characteristics and to identify trends in the competitive conditions of retail sales of drugs.
Materials and Methods. To assess the level of concentration of pharmacies, based on the territorial location of pharmacies (by region), the method of grouping was used, which allowed to typologize administrative entities. The number of pharmacies (from the License Register for the production of medicines (in the pharmacy), wholesale and retail trade in medicines), population and area by regions of Ukraine (from the website of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine) were taken as initial indicators: the number of population per pharmacy and the number of pharmacies per 100 km2.
The graphical method was used to build a circuit on the number of pharmacies included in the groups per 10 thousand people population and 100 km2.
Results and Discussion. The analysis showed that when grouping pharmacies by demographics, more than half of the regions have a very high and high level of concentration of the pharmacy market. This means that the level of availability of pharmacies for the population in Ukraine is high, but there is extremely high competition. The grouping of pharmacies according to territorial distribution showed that about 50 % of regions of Ukraine have a low concentration of the pharmacy market per unit area, ie the physical availability of pharmacies and pharmaceutical care in them is quite low.
Conclusions. There is a certain imbalance in two groups: demographically, in more than half of the regions there is a very high concentration of Pharmacies, that is, competition in the pharmacy market is extremely high, and on a territorial basis almost half of the regions – with low Pharmacies concentration. That is, areas with predominantly rural settlements have a low level of pharmaceutical supply. This only indicates that in the pharmacy segment the decisive factor is the influence of financial factors on the organization of pharmaceutical activities and commercialization.
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