Analysis of the impact of changes in world oil prices to change the prices for medicines

The article examines the problem of the influence of rising world oil prices on the Russian economy, in particular, the change in the price of the medicine. The dependence of the domestic economy from the oil industry is very high: the reason for this - a significant proportion of revenues to the Federal budget from the sale of oil and gas. The collapse of world oil prices in 2014-2015, followed by rising prices for many goods, including for medicines. With the help of correlation and regression analysis the paper investigates the dependence of the change of drug prices from changes in world oil prices. Since the cover prices for all drugs in the study is not possible, was considered the best-selling: sage, analgin, aspirin. The results of the analysis revealed a strong inverse dependence of prices on the goods under investigation: the fall in oil prices is observed, the response of the pharmaceutical goods in the form of higher prices.