Pharmaceutical activity: approaches to understanding and legal features

Abstract

The article deals with the legal features of pharmaceutical activity. The content of pharmaceutical activity is based on the specification of the «basic» features of this concept. It turns out that the pharmaceutical activity is characterized by a complex nature and a certain systematic nature of the implemented social and legal measures. It is analyzed how the complexity of the legal nature of this activity is manifested.The research examines the relationship between the content of the concept of «pharmaceutical activity» and the concept of «health care», which allows us to formulate the conclusion that the characteristics of health care can be taken into account in the content of the legally defined signs of pharmaceutical activity. They should be connected, first of all, with its economic and legal properties, which in health care ensure the process of creating relevant benefits. It is explained why pharmaceutical activity is «represented» in its types and their separate varieties in the current legislation. It is clarified what the economic purpose of pharmaceutical activity is.Attention is focused on the social goal of pharmaceutical activity and it is noted that this goal is directly related to measures that in the socio-economic sector of health care provide health protection, disease prevention, as well as prolonging life and strengthening health.It ed system of special entities (participants) authorized to apply the specified measures in health care. They are, including, pharmaceutical workers. At the same time, attention is drawn to the fact that the different legal status, powers and functions of subjects of pharmaceutical activity, as well as the desire to achieve the corresponding (different) goals determine their specific «place» in the system of social and legal measures carried out within the limits of pharmaceutical activity.Separately, it is noted that various subjects of pharmaceutical activity, as well as subjects and objects and goals of pharmaceutical activity, are among themselves in certain relationships that acquire the meaning of legal relations.