THE International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) says that pharmacy professionals can "support planetary health...through equitable and environmentally sustainable practice".
According to a newly released FIP Statement of Policy on Environmental sustainability within pharmacy, climate change poses diverse, immediate and long-term threats to human health, and notes that global health systems have a significant climate impact.
In addition, pharmaceutical pollution causes damage to the environment and ecosystem degradation, with downstream impacts on patient care such as antimicrobial pollution causing antimicrobial resistance.
Pharmacists are "well-positioned and ethically responsible to mitigate climate and pollution risks to health throughout the pharmaceutical supply chain and across the spectrum of medication management," the paper notes.
View the policy HERE.
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