scholarly journals Attitudes and Considerations towards Pharmaceuticals-Related Environmental Issues among Finnish Population

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12930
Author(s):  
Lasse Alajärvi ◽  
Johanna Timonen ◽  
Piia Lavikainen ◽  
Janne Martikainen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Finnish Population ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Pharmaceutical Residues ◽  
Prescription Medicines

A number of policy recommendations identify the general public as a key participant in environmentally sustainable pharmaceutical policies. However, research into pharmaceuticals-related environmental issues from the population perspective is scarce. We studied the awareness among Finnish adults (n = 2030) of pharmaceutical residues in Finnish waterways, their perceived environmental sources, views on pharmaceuticals-related environmental issues, and their association with background characteristics. Of the respondents, 89.5% were aware of the presence of pharmaceuticals in Finnish waterways. Wastewaters from the pharmaceutical industry were most frequently, and pharmaceuticals excreted by humans least frequently, considered a major environmental source of pharmaceuticals. The vast majority of the respondents were worried about the environmental and health impact of pharmaceutical residues and emphasized issues such as the importance of environmentally sustainable actions by pharmaceutical companies and the recyclability of the pharmaceutical packaging materials. Age, education, use of prescription medicines, and environmental attitude were associated with awareness of pharmaceutical residues, while gender, age, education level, and environmental attitude were associated most frequently with pharmaceuticals-related environmental considerations. These results indicate a need for improved communication about the environmental effects of pharmaceuticals and the significance of different pharmaceutical emission sources in order to promote a more environmentally friendly, effective pharmaceutical policy.

Investigation Of Over The Counter (Otc ) Pharmaceutical Brands Prefered By New Age Indian Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Dr.G. Madhumita ◽  
Dr.G. Rajini ◽  
Dr.B. Subisha
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Company ◽  
Medical Practitioner ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Brand Preference ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Prescription Medicines ◽  
Otc Medicines

The study investigates the preference of OTC Medicines among the pharmaceutical brand.OTC Medicines means medicines lawfully permitted to sell  “Over the Counter”, i.e. devoid of the prescription of a Registered Medical Practitioner. In India, although the expression has no lawful acknowledgment, all the medicines that are not incorporated in the list of ‘prescription only medicines’ are measured as non-prescription medicines (or OTC Medicines).Pharmaceutical over the counter products (OTC) be the medicines which can be sold without prescription. Also termed as “Non Prescription Medicines” discussed by Arti(2010).This article talks about top pharmaceutical company brands Aventis Pharma, GlaxoSmithKline, Surya Pharma, Torrent Pharma,Glenmark,Divis Labs,Biocon, Orchid Chemical, Abbott Indi, Sterling Bio, Alembic Pharma etc, the brand preference of New Age Indian Women. A 736 questionnaire was composed of different age and different New Age Indian Women in around Urban :Chennai ;Semi Urban :Neyveli ; Rural :Soolurpet ;Tirupur. The findings of the study shows that the highest preferred generic brand is balms,  Medicines chosen  for fever is Crocin, Idoex  is most ideal pain blams, volini spray is also most preferred brand, ENO is ideal Antacid brand, Sadiron is another chosen brand for cough and cold, the other brands are Metfal SPS, Johnson, Revital are the other favored brands. The study will be a great instrument for the pharmaceutical companies brands to understand today’s New Age Indian Women.

A Review on Green Trust and Environmental Quality Awareness Affect Towards Environmental Attitude

2019 ◽  
pp. 1510-1522
Author(s):  
Trianna Rosli ◽  
Fauziah Sh. Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Halo Effect ◽  
Personal Satisfaction ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Green Trust ◽  
Quality Awareness

There are literally thousands of the global warming and pollution issues affecting the living resources, habitats and residents of an ecosystem. The question is, do the issues affects consumers' environmental attitude? Although environmental awareness is gaining more ground among consumers, it is still not clear how this influence their cognitive thinking and consequently their action. The findings on this issue are still equivocal. There are also arguments that most consumers expect others to solve environmental issues which seems to be more of future concerns while they seek immediate gratification or short term personal satisfaction. To date, marketers are still struggling to convince consumers towards eco-products. Furthermore, green halo effect and greenwashing continues distorting buyers and caused them to be more skeptical. This chapter intends to consolidate the literature on green trust factors and environmental quality awareness and assess how these could stimulate environmental attitude.

Individual Responsibility for Promoting Global Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Nicole Hassoun
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Access To Medicines ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies

If Global Health Impact labeling is successful, it will give companies a reason to produce drugs that will save millions of lives. One might wonder, however, whether consumers have any moral obligation to purchase goods from Global Health Impact–certified companies or whether purchasing these goods is even morally permissible. The fourth chapter suggests that, if the proposal is implemented, there is reason to purchase goods from Global Health Impact–certified companies. It defends something along the lines of this argument: (1) pharmaceutical companies violate rights and (2) do not do enough to address the access to medicines issue, so (3) if the Global Health Impact initiative helps rectify these problems, people should generally purchase goods from certified companies.

scholarly journals Operationalising the health aspects of sustainable diets: a review

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elly Mertens ◽  
Pieter van’t Veer ◽  
Gerrit J Hiddink ◽  
Jan MJM Steijns ◽  
Anneleen Kuijsten
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
Dietary Quality ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Sustainable Diets

AbstractObjectiveShifting towards a more sustainable food consumption pattern is an important strategy to mitigate climate change. In the past decade, various studies have optimised environmentally sustainable diets using different methodological approaches. The aim of the present review was to categorise and summarise the different approaches to operationalise the health aspects of environmentally sustainable diets.DesignConventional keyword and reference searches were conducted in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Knowledge and CAB Abstracts. Inclusion criteria were: (i) English-language publication; (ii) published between 2005 and October 2015; (iii) dietary data collected for the diet as a whole at the national, household or individual level; (iv) comparison of the current diet with dietary scenarios; and (v) for results to consider the health aspect in some way.SettingConsumer diets.SubjectsAdult population.ResultsWe reviewed forty-nine studies that combined the health and environmental aspects of consumer diets. Hereby, five approaches to operationalise the health aspect of the diet were identified: (i) food item replacements; (ii) dietary guidelines; (iii) dietary quality scores; (iv) diet modelling techniques; and (v) diet-related health impact analysis.ConclusionsAlthough the sustainability concept is increasingly popular and widely advocated by nutritional and environmental scientists, the journey towards designing sustainable diets for consumers has only just begun. In the context of operationalising the health aspects, diet modelling might be considered the preferred approach since it captures the complexity of the diet as a whole. For the future, we propose SHARP diets: environmentally Sustainable (S), Healthy (H), Affordable (A), Reliable (R) and Preferred from the consumer’s perspective (P).

scholarly journals Modelling the health impact of environmentally sustainable dietary scenarios in the UK

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 710-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Scarborough ◽  
S Allender ◽  
D Clarke ◽  
K Wickramasinghe ◽  
M Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Health Impact ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF EMOTIONAL AFFINITY TOWARD NATURE AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY BEHAVIOUR: A RELIABILITY TEST

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-75
Author(s):  
Logeswari Uthama puthran ◽  
Fais Ahmad ◽  
Hazlinda Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Test Reliability ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Learning Institutions

Over the last few decades, environmental issues such as global warming, acid rain, air pollution, urban sprawl, waste disposal, ozone layer depletion, water pollution and climate change have facing concern among prominent world organisational annual meeting and occasions. Almost media covers the environmental and sustainability issues in their daily publications. Malaysia as a developing country starving to survive with annual climate change issues such as flash floods, haze, water and air pollution and increasing seasonal sicknesses. In conjunction, government, policymakers, learning institutions, and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) play their role in educating people to attain sustainability lifestyle. Specifically, institution leaders as a change agent encourage adapting environmental behaviour to enhancing environmental attitude and behaviour among their stakeholders. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to test the reliability of environmental responsive behaviour, specifically among school leaders in Malaysia. For this study, 503 samples were used to test reliability. The findings indicated that all examined variables consistently reflect the construct it is measuring. Hence, adapted measurement items are reliable to use in future studies.

scholarly journals Environmental attitudes among students of Early Childhood Education program in University of Jember

2020 ◽  
Vol 485 (1) ◽  
pp. 012091
Author(s):  
S W D Saputri ◽  
L P I Budyawati ◽  
L N Aisiyah ◽  
R Y Widiastuti ◽  
A N Atika
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Minimum Score

Abstract This study aimed to describe the environmental attitudes of students of Early Childhood Education (ECE) program in University of Jember. Descriptive quantitative approach with survey method were employed. For data collection, the Environmental Attitude Scale were distributed to 102 students of ECE program in University of Jember from 2nd, 4th and 6th semester, with age ranged from 19 – 23 years old. Analysis were done based on mean, standard deviation, maximum and minimum score computation with N=101. The results of this study indicated that (1) Most students of ECE program in University of Jember have general positive environmental attitude, (2) The energy saving is the most concerned environmental issues among the students, and waste products get the least attention. Some additional findings and limitations are discussed.

scholarly journals Could Television Commercials Marketing Prescription Drugs Cause Psychological Harm to the Public?

2019 ◽  
pp. 01-02
Author(s):  
I Kenneth Royal
Keyword(s):  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
Television Advertising ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Prescription Medications ◽  
Television Commercials ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Harm ◽  
Prescription Medicines ◽  
Keywords Anxiety

Keywords: Anxiety; Media; Prescription drugs; Pharmacy; Television; Advertising; Commercials Numerous studies have found media such as televised images and commercials may influence viewers’ perceptions of self and their subsequent behaviors [1-4]. Historically, television has long presented advertisements for medicine, but these typically were over-thecounter medicines, such as medication to treat a headache, a common cold, the flu, etc. These medicines might include Tylenol, Alka-Seltzer, Pepto Bismol, etc. In recent years, however, the marketing landscape has changed dramatically with pharmaceutical companies now advertising for prescription medications. Examples of prescription medicines commonly appearing on television at this time of this writing include Cialis and Viagra for treating erectile dysfunction, Lyrica for diabetic foot pain, Otezla for plaque psoriasis, Crestor and Xarelto to prevent the risk of heart attack, Eliquis to prevent stroke, and Humira and Xeljanz to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

scholarly journals Assessment of Environmental Behaviour Among the Urban Poor of Panjtirthi Slum, Jammu, India

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 801-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shehnaz Khan ◽  
Arvind Kumar ◽  
Piyush Malaviya
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
High Level ◽  
Gender Groups

The present study is an attempt to evaluate environmental awareness and attitude among the slum dwellers. Results based upon dwellers responses to various questions on environmental issues revealed that majority of the respondents (76.19%) had score indicating high level of basic environmental awareness. Among the gender groups, significant difference between the basic environmental awareness level among male and female respondents was observed but no significant difference was shown among different educational and age groups. Similarly, majority of respondents showed a high level (86.81%) of environmental attitude.

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