2024-09-172024-09-172020-02-14RAMOS, Nayara Cristina. Logística reversa de medicamentos inservíveis: legislações brasileiras e a prática dos hospitais estaduais da Região do Araguaia, Sudeste do Pará, Brasil. Orientador: Hélio Raymundo Ferreira Filho. 2020. 92 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Ambientais) - Centro de Ciências Naturais e Tecnologia, Universidade do Estado do Pará, Belém, 2020.https://portaldaposgraduacao.uepa.br/handle/riuepa/190AbertoMedicamentos inservíveisLogística reversaLegislaçãoResíduos sólidosMedicamentosDescarteHospitais Estaduais – (PA)Legislação BrasileiraUnservicable drugsReverse logistics practicesLegislationDissertaçãoEngenharias::Engenharia de Produção::Gerência de ProduçãoThe search for better practices for disposing of useless medicines (IM) is a challenge that Brazil has been taking. In recent years, initiatives have been adopted based on public policies, where since nation, states and municipalities have enacted laws that define the environmentally correct ways of disposing of IM, aiming to minimize environmental impacts and, consequently, guarantee quality and health of human and animal life. Given the above, this research aims to identify which Brazilian states and capitals, with an emphasis on the northern region of the country, have already enacted laws inherent to the practices of reverse logistics (LR) of drug residues, in addition to knowing the LR practices of MI adopted in state hospitals in the Region of Araguaia, in the southeast of the state of Pará. The methods used in the research were bibliographic and documentary studies (in the first two articles) and case study (in the third article). In the first two articles, it was found that 73.07% of Brazilian states and 59.25% of Brazilian capitals have already enacted some law, the North being the Brazilian region with the lowest number of capitals with laws already enacted (71.42% of non have laws). In the third article, the disposal procedures adopted by state hospitals in the Araguaia Region, in southeastern Pará, were described, noting that the disposal procedures adopted by hospitals have been trying to adjust to the requirements of national legislation, as well as the process of final destination of patients. MI is in charge of third party companies. As there is no recycling or reuse process of IM, the procedure adopted by one of the hospitals stands out, which consists of the non-generation or minimum generation of this type of waste, a practice that is showing positive results, such as an effective planning and control of the acquisition and handling of medicines by the hospital.PPGCA - Meio ambiente e sustentabilidade