About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal Social Pharmacy in Health Сare was created with the purpose of informing research teams, healthcare professionals, and practitioners in the pharmaceutical sector about the latest achievements of Ukrainian and international scientists in the pharmaceutical sector of healthcare, specifically regarding the development of medical and pharmaceutical education, the organization of pharmaceutical care for the population, drug technology and quality control, biotechnology, pharmacoepidemiological, socioeconomic, and marketing research in pharmacy, and pharmacoeconomic research in medical and pharmaceutical practice.

Sections of the Journal:

  • Social Medicine and Pharmacy: Past, Present and Development Prospects
  • Healthcare Organization
  • Organizational and Socio-economic Bases of Pharmaceutical Activities
  • Social Marketing and Pharmacoeconomic Research

The results of the studies that are covered in the journal can be used in the practical activities of a wide range of people: scientists, practitioners in the pharmaceutical and medical industries, healthcare organizers.

The target audience of authors and readers of the publication are scientists in the field of social pharmacy, organization and management of health care; health managers at all levels; managers and employees of pharmaceutical enterprises (manufacturing organizations, wholesale and retail sale of drugs); employees of regulatory bodies of public health and pharmacy, medical and pharmaceutical higher educational institutions (teachers, scientists, graduate students and undergraduates).

The scientific journal Social Pharmacy in Health Сare is indexed in the world's leading scholarly indexing databases, open access directories and repositories, including CrossRef (publisher ID: 10.24959/sphhcj), Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD), Index Copernicus Journals, Openalex, Le catalogue du Système Universitaire de Documentation (SUDOC), Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory, WorldCat, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), Google Academy, URJ Dzherelo, Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. 

The journal uses the LOCKSS system to implement a distributed archiving system, enabling the creation of permanent archives of the journal for preservation and recovery purposes. 

Authors are permitted to deposit their articles in an institutional or other repository of their choice.

All articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License International CC BY 4.0.

Publication Frequency

Journal is published four times per year.