Evaluation of Iran Drug policies in importing drugs and determining nature of drugs with ABC-VED method

Introduction: According to the significant role of medicines in health promotion of society, spending adequate money and providing medicines through stringent standards is more important. Because of unlimited demands vs limited sources in healthcare, disbursement of moneyis one of the critical issues should be noticed. Method: In the qualitative phase of this study we attempted to overcome to the authorities opinions about medicine supplying policies through importing and domestic production. In the quantitative phase, analyzing pharmaceutical market ofIran and each part of production and importation market share have been done and by using ABCVED matrix, drugs were classified to three categories: Vital, Essential and Desirable. also, according to monetary volume of drugs, they were classified to the categories A, B and C. Result:30% of current drug market of Iran is provided by importing companies that only 1% of this volume belongs to drugs manufactured by licenses, 9% of this part, have domestic production and 20% of them belongs to drugs that have not similar form in Iran drug list.

Keywords:

importing , ABC-VED matrix , domestic production