Study On Incentive Strategies For Government-led Recovery Of Expired Drugs In Households

With the rapid development of social economy recently,the total amount of household expired drugs in our country is also growing,these drugs are often discarded,causing great harm to ecological environment.At the same time,illegal purchase and sale of expired drugs not only disrupted the normal order of the drug circulation market,but also seriously threatened the public safety.Therefore,it has become an important topic in the research field of reverse logistics to carry out a unified collection and scientific disposal of expired drugs,which has attracted more and more attention from all levels of government and the wide attention of all sectors of society.The recycling of expired drugs in our country is still in the initial stage,and has not been standardized,a variety of exploration and practice has been carried out in many places.These recovery modes can be roughly divided into two categories according to the responsible subject of recovery,one is the government led recycling mode,and the other is the pharmaceutical enterprise spontaneous recovery mode.However,recycling expired drugs can not produce direct economic benefits,and the recovery and destruction costs is very high,there are only a very small number of large pharmaceutical companies carrying out recycling in a specific time and range.In addition,this recovery model also has some problems,such as the regulatory difficulty and drug leakage risk is high,recovery time is short,the scope is small,people's trust is low and so on.So at this stage,it is not only necessary,but also urgent for the government to lead the recovery of household expired drugs.Since 2003,with the deepening of awareness of the dangers of expired drugs,more and more local governments have led the family expired drugs recycling activities,and has made remarkable achievements in the improvement of the recycling system and the construction of the recycling point.But it has to be realized that the residents'enthusiasm of participating is poor,which is the most important factor restricting the sustainable development of the family expired drugs recycling work.Therefore,it is a great challenge for the government to carry out effective incentive strategy to mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of the residents.This paper analyzes the actual operation of household recycling expired drugs under the leadership of the government,pointed out that the recycling convenience,recovery point service level,economic factors,individual environmental health awareness and knowledge level are the main factors which have great impact on the participation of residents in the recycling of expired drugs.And focus on these factors,the paper makes a theoretical analysis of the available incentives and their effect mechanism,which clarify the direction of the government to develop incentive strategies in the future.However,the drug recovery system expired contains many elements,these elements interrelated and interplay with each other,forming a multiple feedback structure.It is very difficult to analyze the effect of the implementation of the recycling incentive strategy only based on the subjective knowledge and experience.Therefore,the system dynamics,which is known as the "the laboratory of strategy and decision-making ",is introduced into the field of household expired drug recycling in this paper.On the basis of the comprehensive analysis of the feedback structure of recycling system,this paper establishes a system dynamics model and applies it in s actual case.The real operation conditions of the recovery system is simulated,and the effects of different incentive strategies are visually examined,which providing a reference for the government to develop better recycling programs.