A Glasgow-based researcher is looking to reduce pharmaceutical pollution in Scotland through ‘blue-green prescriptions’ in a bid to help people struggling with their mental health.
A Glasgow-based researcher is looking to reduce pharmaceutical pollution in Scotland through ‘blue-green prescriptions’ in a bid to help people struggling with their mentalJulze Alejandre, who is completing his PhD at Glasgow Caledonian University, is leading the research on Scotland’s first “blue-green” programme which looks to encourage access to community based “blue-spaced” activities such as kayaking or swimming to help people dealing with depression or anxiety, instead of relying on...
It revealed the presence of nine pharmaceuticals in Scottish water environments which had negative impacts on the environment and could contribute to “antimicrobial resistance” which occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat while increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.
Recently Julze launched a Blue-Green Prescribing Survey asking healthcare professionals, such as GPs, nurses and pharmacists, what would help and support them to practise blue-green prescribing. Julze explained: “Blue-green prescribing is a response to pharmaceutical pollution. It will help reduce pharmaceutical pollution at source by providing people with environmentally sustainable health interventions.
Julze who also works as a senior parliamentary intern on One Health and Planetary Health at the House of Lords, developed policy recommendations on how to implement environmentally sustainable pharmaceutical prescribing inwhich includes building the capabilities of healthcare providers to practise blue-green prescribing.
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