Medicines Reuse

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Manufacturing industries; Medicine and Nursing; attitudes; circular economy; dosage form; hospital; household; intelligent pharmaceutical packaging; intentions; inventory; medication; medication waste; medicinal waste; medicine re-dispensing; medicine reuse; medicine waste; medicines; medicines reuse; medicines storage; people's belief; people's intentions; pharmaceutical; pharmacist; psychological theories; public attitudes; public views; questionnaire; re-dispensing; re-issuing; recycle; recycling; redistribution; reduce; reduce medicinal waste; reuse; reuse of medicines; risk; sensors; storage; sustainability; theory of planned behavior; theory of planned behaviour; therapeutic class; unused medicines; waste; waste management
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036540894; 9783036540900; books978-3-0365-4089-4
• Access: Open Access

This reprint examines the concept of medicines reuse, the idea that unused medication returned by one patient can be re-dispensed for use by another. Ten papers written by over 20 authors examine a range of issues related to medicines reuse including the circular economy of the pharmaceutical supply chain; the prevalence of unused medicines or medication waste within patients' homes; people's views about the causes of medication waste and the potential for medicines reuse; what might influence people to reuse medicines in the future; how sensing technologies might facilitate medicines reuse; and the effect of including sensing technologies on people's willingness to consider medicines reuse.