The issue of applying marketing on the pharmaceutical market in Serbia

V. Dickov, A. Dickov*, S. Martinovic-Mitrovic*

Faculty of International Management, European University, Belgrade (Serbia); *Clinic of Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Center Vojvodina, Novi Sad (Serbia) **Klinika za bolesti zavisnosti, Institut za psihijatriju, Klinicki centar Vojvodine, Novi Sad (Serbia)

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• Pharmaceutical Market

The issue of applying marketing on the pharmaceutical market has the features of subject-based approach, with the intention to appreciate the specific nature of the products, as well as the special characteristics of the complexly formed demand. The relevance of the issue is related to the above-average performance of the pharmaceutical industry, its role in the generation of humanity’s demographic transition, and specific development routes of marketing as a scientific and practical discipline. The sensitive nature of a pharmaceutical product on the one hand generates the intense legislation on this market, whereas on the other, the circumstances of its use generate a specific environment in which the production/consumption of the products of pharmaceutical industry is intensively reflected as a specific medical, cultural, economic and even political phenomenon.

Corresponding Author: Veselin Dickov, MD; e-mail: dickov@hotmail.com

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