End-of-use and end-of-life medicines-insights from pharmaceutical care process into waste medicines management.

ABSTRACT: End-of-use and end-of-life medicines waste management has been a challenge for public and private managers in different countries. Reverse logistics is a waste management strategy whose application to public pharmaceutical care processes faces legal restrictions and incertitude. Nevertheless, reverse logistics of end-of-use and end-of-life medicines may be both a saving and an environmental strategy in developing countries that manage health under limited resources. How to overcome restrictions to reverse logistics mainly in the context of primary health level? This study aims to investigate the most relevant critical factors for implementing medicine waste management in pharmaceutical care process. The unit analysis is the primary health level process in a developing country capital. Cons

SUBMITTER: de Campos EAR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8187138 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature