Research of the Main Components of Risk Management in Pharmacy

A market economy characterized by existing of uncertainty and the possibility of choosing one or more development directions for the pharmaceutical market subjects causes risk situations. The reasons for their occurrence are usually the company affiliation, its size, form of ownership, legal status, technological integrity and degree of subordination, strategy, principles of the company, capital structure, resources and their use, quality and level of marketing, etc. Thus, the creation of an effective health care management system, and in particular of pharmacy, is impossible without the monitoring, accounting, assessment and management of risk situations arising from the practice. In connection with the above mentioned, the purpose of our study was to study the features of risk management in pharmacy. The structure of risk factors in the activity of the pharmaceutical organization with its division into internal and external ones has been developed, which will allow timely determinate the possibility of occurrence of adverse situations and introduce measures for their prevention or minimization. The list of these entities is the basis for developing risk management standards in a pharmaceutical company. Keywords—pharmacy, risk management, risk sources, risk exposure entities, pharmaceutical organizations, medicines