Study of improvement of the system of social protection of pharmacy professionals in Ukraine and justification of the conception of social protection of pharmacy professionals

Abstract

Current state of social services in Ukraine has been studied in general and the system of social protection of pharmacy professionals (SPPhP) in the pharmaceutical sector of health industiy has been studied in particular. It has been found out that up to date there is no effective mechanism of SPPhP provision and all phases of the development of social services are characterized by the only direction of social protection of the population, so the sector-specific issues and SPPhP are neglected. The following areas of improvement of SPPhP have been studied: category framework of social services in Ukraine has been analyzed, terminology definition of SPPhP, service and others has been offered, the components of these concepts have been outlined; the structure of the state social protection in Ukraine has been analyzed and on its basis a structure of SPPhP in Ukraine has been proposed.

The conception of SPPhP has been justified and formed. It emphasizes that all components of SPPhP are in the same information and legal field. Therefore they require an integrated approach to solving of the existing problems in the system of SPPhP. The current system of social and economic protection of PhP, its main components, including PhP's social assistance, PhP's social guarantees, PhP's social services, PhP's social insurance have been analyzed and outlined. We have divided them into state guarantees and guarantees by employer.

For reliability and validity of our study, we have developed and processed "Model of the definition of expert "competence index".