Facilitators for establishing a home-based medicine reverse logistic system in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping review
BackgroundThe end-of-use and end-of-life medicines at households are often disposed of improperly, which has harmful environmental impacts. Health hazards like antimicrobial resistance can occur. A home/household-based medicine reverse logistics system can avoid improper disposal of medicine waste,...
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| description | BackgroundThe end-of-use and end-of-life medicines at households are often disposed of improperly, which has harmful environmental impacts. Health hazards like antimicrobial resistance can occur. A home/household-based medicine reverse logistics system can avoid improper disposal of medicine waste, and it can recover any remaining value from end-of-use medicines.MethodsWe did a scoping review to identify the key facilitators that help the initiation and establishment of a Medicine Reverse Logistics (MRL) system for the collection of unused medicines from households. Google Scholar and PubMed were the databases searched. A qualitative synthesis of included studies was performed. Themes and subthemes were identified. The keywords used were medicines, drugs, reverse logistics, homes, houses, and households.ResultsThe awareness level of the various stakeholders, the sharing of responsibilities among stakeholders, incentives to stakeholders, political will and legal framework, and the utilization of logistics managerial capabilities of pharmaceutical companies were identified as key facilitators. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d589feeecb26499f90f80c49fae776bc2025-08-20T03:32:37ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Pharmacology1663-98122025-07-011610.3389/fphar.2025.15686961568696Facilitators for establishing a home-based medicine reverse logistic system in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping reviewJose Vincent0Thekkumkara Surendran Anish1Department of Community Medicine, Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thrissur, Kerala, IndiaDepartment of Community Medicine, Nodal Officer, Kerala One Health Centre for Nipah Research and Resilience, Kozhikode, Kerala, IndiaBackgroundThe end-of-use and end-of-life medicines at households are often disposed of improperly, which has harmful environmental impacts. Health hazards like antimicrobial resistance can occur. A home/household-based medicine reverse logistics system can avoid improper disposal of medicine waste, and it can recover any remaining value from end-of-use medicines.MethodsWe did a scoping review to identify the key facilitators that help the initiation and establishment of a Medicine Reverse Logistics (MRL) system for the collection of unused medicines from households. Google Scholar and PubMed were the databases searched. A qualitative synthesis of included studies was performed. Themes and subthemes were identified. The keywords used were medicines, drugs, reverse logistics, homes, houses, and households.ResultsThe awareness level of the various stakeholders, the sharing of responsibilities among stakeholders, incentives to stakeholders, political will and legal framework, and the utilization of logistics managerial capabilities of pharmaceutical companies were identified as key facilitators.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2025.1568696/fullmedicinesdrugsdrug wastereverse logistic chainenvironmental risk |
| spellingShingle | Jose Vincent Thekkumkara Surendran Anish Facilitators for establishing a home-based medicine reverse logistic system in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping review Frontiers in Pharmacology medicines drugs drug waste reverse logistic chain environmental risk |
| title | Facilitators for establishing a home-based medicine reverse logistic system in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping review |
| title_full | Facilitators for establishing a home-based medicine reverse logistic system in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping review |
| title_fullStr | Facilitators for establishing a home-based medicine reverse logistic system in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Facilitators for establishing a home-based medicine reverse logistic system in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping review |
| title_short | Facilitators for establishing a home-based medicine reverse logistic system in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping review |
| title_sort | facilitators for establishing a home based medicine reverse logistic system in low and middle income countries a scoping review |
| topic | medicines drugs drug waste reverse logistic chain environmental risk |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2025.1568696/full |
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