Towards greener prescribing? Swedish general practitioners' support for policies to reduce pharmaceutical pollution.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Prescribing pharmaceuticals is essential to improve health, but it also has substantial environmental impact. This study investigated the extent to which Swedish general practitioners (GPs) are willing to integrate environmental aspects into treatment decisions and their opinions on policies to reduce pharmaceutical pollution.

Methods

A questionnaire assessing environmental considerations in prescribing was developed and distributed to 1233 Swedish GPs and physicians in training (response rate: 22%) between September 2023 and June 2024. It included 3 patient cases to assess trade-offs between therapeutic effect and environmental impact of pharmaceuticals used for pain management, blood pressure reduction, and contraception. Questions about attitudes to policies to reduc

SUBMITTER: Villen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12272516 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature