[Use of pharmacoeconomics analyses to health protection].

The pharmacoeconomics makes possible a most favourable utilization of capital resources appropriated for the health protection. For the use of economic analysis health and effects of disease and its treatment are represented in absolute values having a common base--money. The economic analysis is usually carried out from a certain perspective. Something, what is an expense for someone can be a profit for someone else. This work is a review of available Polish literature describing main assumptions of the pharmoeconomics and its instruments--the pharmacoeconomic analyses. As a result of the review it has been ascertained that a modern medicine can not do without economics. At present the capital resources are constantly too small, profitability of an employed method of the therapy or drug must be assessed all the time.