{"id":15043,"date":"2025-09-01T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/?p=15043"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:39:28","slug":"green-university-day-greener-prescribing-determinants-of-optimal-pharmacotherapy-and-prescription-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/en\/2025\/09\/01\/green-university-day-greener-prescribing-determinants-of-optimal-pharmacotherapy-and-prescription-precision\/","title":{"rendered":"Green University Day: \u201cGreener Prescribing: Determinants of optimal pharmacotherapy and prescription precision\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part of this year’s **Green University Day**, I had the opportunity to speak on an increasingly interesting topic: the intersection of pharmacotherapy and environmental sustainability. While much attention has been given to healthcare’s carbon footprint, there are broader\u2014and in many cases, more urgent\u2014ecological issues linked to <\/span>how we design, prescribe, and dispose of medicines.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714 Lifecycle Thinking<\/b><\/span>: Environmental impact should be considered from drug development to disposal\u2014not just during patient use.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714 Eco-Design<\/b><\/span>: Encouraging the use of **biodegradable APIs** and green chemistry in pharmaceutical manufacturing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714 Responsible Prescribing<\/b><\/span><\/span>: Avoiding unnecessary prescriptions, especially antibiotics, and supporting deprescribing when appropriate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714 Transparent Data<\/b><\/span>: Mandating environmental risk disclosures for all medicines and making this information publicly available.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714 Safe Disposal<\/b><\/span>: Strengthening medicine return programs and public awareness to prevent environmental contamination.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714 Cross-Sector Collaboration<\/b><\/span>: Sustainability in healthcare requires cooperation between regulators, industry, academia, and prescribers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tools supporting more environmental-responsible prescribing:<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd39New EU Standards: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) updated its \u201cEnvironmental Risk Assessment (ERA)\u201d guidelines in September 2024, introducing a more rigorous framework for evaluating a drug\u2019s environmental footprint during market authorization.<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd39Sweden\u2019s \u201cPharmaceuticals and Environment\u201d database (Janusinfo) ranks over 850 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) by environmental risk\u2014helping inform safer prescribing choices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every prescription we write carries an environmental footprint as well. As healthcare professionals, we are uniquely positioned to select the most appropriate pharmacotherapy by adhering to clinical guidelines and the Summary of Product Characteristics of the medicines\u2014while also looking beyond and consider the broader ecological impact of our choices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Renata Papp MD PhD<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of this year’s **Green University Day**, I had the opportunity to speak on an increasingly interesting topic: the intersection of pharmacotherapy and environmental sustainability. While much attention has been given to healthcare’s carbon footprint, there are broader\u2014and in many cases, more urgent\u2014ecological issues linked to how we design, prescribe, and dispose of medicines. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102322,"featured_media":15044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15046,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions\/15046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/pharmacology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}