• Brit J Hosp Med · Jan 2025

    Editorial

    Addressing the Environmental Impact of Pharmaceuticals: A Call to Action.

    • Amy Booth and Sara Elizabeth Shaw.
    • Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
    • Brit J Hosp Med. 2025 Jan 24; 86 (1): 181-8.

    AbstractThe contribution of health care to environmental and climate crises is significant, under-addressed, and with consequences for human health. This editorial is a call to action. Focusing on pharmaceuticals as a major environmental threat, we examine pharmaceutical impacts across their lifecycle, summarising greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and biodiversity loss, and outlining challenges and opportunities to reduce this impact. We urge health care decision-makers and providers to urgently consider environmental factors in their decision-making relating to both policy, and practice, promoting actions such as rational prescribing, non-pharmaceutical interventions, and research and advocacy for sustainable production, procurement, and use.

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