National Medication Security: Pandemic Lessons

The author attempts to analyze primary challenges in the medication supply and to reconsider the key threats to the medication supply in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic challenges. The paper is based on the sectoral statistics, public opinion polls, and expert assessments. The author discusses key factors affecting affordability and availability of medicines, including high import dependency and immature mechanisms of price regulation, re-registration, public procurement and mandatory labeling of medicines. It is stated that the well-established and uninterrupted manufacture of medicines and the availability of Russian raw materials in the domestic pharmaceutical market are the cornerstone of the medication security of Russians.

Keywords

pharmaceutical market, provision of medicines, drug safety, accessibility of medicines, pandemic, sanctions, import substitution

Received

24.11.2021

Publication date

22.12.2021

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17387

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GOST	Fadeeva E. National Medication Security: Pandemic Lessons // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2021. – Issue 11 C. 140-146 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250014393-5-1-en (circulation date: 02.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250014393-5
MLA	Fadeeva, Ekaterina V "National Medication Security: Pandemic Lessons." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 11 (2021):140-146. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250014393-5
APA	Fadeeva E. (2021). National Medication Security: Pandemic Lessons. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (11), pp.140-146 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250014393-5

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