A STUDY ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF PHARMACIES IN TURKEY FOR THE 1990-1996 PERIOD

Sevgi Sar*°, Gülbin Özçelikay*, G.Hale Özcömert*, Eris Asil*

* Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Management, Tandogan, Ankara, TURKEY.
°Corresponding Author

Summary:
There are eight Faculties of Pharmacy in Turkey. Some of the graduates from these faculties work in state institutions and hospitals, some of them work in the pharmaceutical industry and universities but most of them establish a community pharmacy or work in a pharmacy.
In this study, the distribution of the pharmacies, and ratio of population/pharmacy have been investigated for the 1990-1996 period.
Data for this study were collected by reviewing of the records of the pharmacies in the Pharmacy Licence Branch of the records of the General Directorate of Drug and Pharmacy of the Ministry of Health.These data have been evaluated together with the information obtained from the State Institute of Statistics of Republic of the Turkey.
The study showed that, the estimated population of Turkey is 62.697.000 and there are 16.716 pharmacies in 80 cities at the end of 1996. According to these data, there is one pharmacy for 3.750 persons in Turkey.
The data for this study have been compared with data of previous studies and some evaluations have been carried out.

Key words:
Pharmacies, Population , Distribution of Pharmacies.