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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">ssmu</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Бюллетень сибирской медицины</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Bulletin of Siberian Medicine</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1682-0363</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1819-3684</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Siberian State Medical University, the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.20538/1682-0363-2016-1-5-13</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">ssmu-481</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЕ СТАТЬИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ORIGINAL PAPERS</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>АНАЛИЗ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ФАРМАЦЕВТИЧЕСКИХ КОМПАНИЙ В ЕГИПТЕ, НАПРАВЛЕННОЙ НА СПЕЦИАЛИСТОВ</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>ANALYSIS OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES’ ACTIVITIES THAT ARE DIRECTED TO PHYSICIANS IN EGYPT</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бахлол</surname><given-names>М. М.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Bahlol</surname><given-names>M. M.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>соискатель кафедры управления и экономики фармации медицинского факультета Российского университета дружбы народов</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD, Department of management and economics of pharmacy </p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">Ph_hossni@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Лагуткина</surname><given-names>Т. П.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Lagutkina</surname><given-names>T. P.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>д-р фарм. наук, профессор кафедры управления и экономики фармации медицинского факультета Российского университета дружбы народов</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>doctor of pharmaceutical scinces, professor of the Department of management and economics of pharmacy</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Российский университет дружбы народов 117198, г. Москва, ул. Миклухо-Маклая, д. 21, корпус 1</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>People’s Friendship University of Russia, 117198, Moscow, St. Mikluho-Maklaja, h. 21, buiding 1</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2016</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>24</day><month>03</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>15</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>5</fpage><lpage>13</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Бахлол М.М., Лагуткина Т.П., 2016</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2016</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Бахлол М.М., Лагуткина Т.П.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Bahlol M.M., Lagutkina T.P.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://bulletin.ssmu.ru/jour/article/view/481">https://bulletin.ssmu.ru/jour/article/view/481</self-uri><abstract><sec><title>Цель</title><p>Цель. Фармацевтический рынок – один из крупнейших мировых рынков, который также обладает своей спецификой. На Ближнем востоке Египет обладает самым крупным развивающимся фармацевтическим рынком. Эта страна лидирует среди других арабских стран по географическим, историческим и политическим соображениям.</p></sec><sec><title>Методология исследования</title><p>Методология исследования. Исследование с использованием простой вероятностной выборки является подходящим методом для широкого и репрезентативного анализа исследуемой ситуации. Таким образом, исследование, включающее 1068 специалистов, было проведено при помощи интервью и структурированного опросника для сбора необходимой информации.</p></sec><sec><title>Новизна исследования</title><p>Новизна исследования. Это первая эмпирическая работа по исследованию деятельности фармацевтических компаний, предназначенная для специалистов на фармацевтическом рынке Египта. Данная деятельность включает осмотр фармацевтических компаний медицинскими представителями, анализ их визитов, частоту их посещений, характеристику информации, предоставленной специалистам медицинскими представителями, ответственность специалистов за данную информацию, затраты фармацевтических компаний на специалистов, а также техники продвижения, применяемые медицинскими представителями. Данные результаты являются важными для менеджеров фармацевтической промышленности. Их также возможно использовать в других отраслях в качестве средств продвижения.</p></sec><sec><title>Результаты исследования</title><p>Результаты исследования. Фармацевтические компании нанимают медицинских представителей повсеместно, так как их услуги по продвижению являются самыми эффективными и востребованными в Египте.</p></sec><sec><title>Практическая значимость</title><p>Практическая значимость. Согласованное видение маркетингового менеджмента с учетом реального контекста фармацевтического рынка приведет к эффекту синергизма в слаженных действиях представителей.</p></sec></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><sec><title>Purpose</title><p>Purpose. Pharmaceutical market is one of the largest world markets with its own conditions. In Middle East, Egypt is a major pharmaceutical emerging market and has geographical, historical and political effective leading role among Arab countries. This research aims to investigate pharmaceutical companies’ activities in Egypt directed to physicians.</p></sec><sec><title>Methodology</title><p>Methodology. Urveying through simple random probability sampling is the approach appropriate for broad and representative overview of situation in research. Therefore, a survey of 1068 physicians was conducted through interviews and establishing structured data collection questionnaire.</p></sec><sec><title>Originality</title><p>Originality. This is the first empirical paper to investigate pharmaceutical companies’ activities directed to physicians in pharmaceutical market of Egypt. These activities include identifying pharmaceutical companies through visits of medical representatives, analysis of those visits, frequency of medical representatives’ visits, characteristics of information introduced by medical representatives to physicians, physicians’ trust in provided information, spending of pharmaceutical companies on physicians, promotional techniques applied by medical representatives. These findings are useful for managers in pharmaceutical industry. They can be also useful in other industries such as medical equipment.</p></sec><sec><title>Findings</title><p>Findings. Pharmaceutical companies are employing medical representatives widely, as the most effective and widely-applied promotion tool in Egypt.</p></sec><sec><title>Practical Implications</title><p>Practical Implications. Coordinate marketing management vision with pharmaceutical market real context will lead to synergism effect in utilizing medical representatives’ activities.</p></sec></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>фармацевтические компании</kwd><kwd>медицинские представители</kwd><kwd>врачи</kwd><kwd>египетский фармацевтический рынок</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>pharmaceutical companies</kwd><kwd>medical representatives</kwd><kwd>physicians</kwd><kwd>egyptian pharmaceutical market</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Bahlol Mohammed Mostafa Survey on using pharmaceutical promotion in Egypt // The USA Journal of Applied Sciences. 2015. December. 6: P. 3 - 5.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Bahlol Mohammed Mostafa Survey on using pharmaceutical promotion in Egypt // The USA Journal of Applied Sciences. 2015. 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