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Pharmaceuticals enhance our quality of life; consequently, their consumption is growing as a result of the need to treat ageing-related and chronic diseases and changes in the clinical practice. The market revenues also show an historic growth worldwide motivated by the increase on the drug demand. However, this positivism on the market is fogged because the discharge of pharmaceuticals and their metabolites into the environment, including water, also increases due to their inappropriate management, treatment and disposal; now, worldwide, this fact is recognized as an environmental concern and human health risk.
- drug consumption
- drug market
- health risk
- pharmaceuticals research
- public policies on drug disposal in wastewater
- pharmaceutical removal
- emerging pollutants
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References
- Mikulic, M. Statistics & Facts, Global Pharmaceutical, Industry; Statista: Hamburg, Germany, 2020.
- CIHR. Drug Bank Database; Version 5.1.3; Canadian Institute of Health Research: Ottawa, ON, USA, 2019.
- OECD. Health and Glance Indicators; OECD Publishing: Paris, France, 2017.
- Vogler, S. The impact of pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies on generics uptake: Implementation of policy options on generics in 29 European countries—An overview. Generics Biosimilars Initiat. J. 2012, 1, 44.
- EGA–European Generic Medicines. Market Review–The European Generic Medicines Markets. European Generic Medicines; European Generic Medicines Association: Brussels, Belgium, May 2011.
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