Emerging practices of healthcare waste management among private surgeries: A case of the City of Tshwane [PDF]
Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health SciencesBackground: This study presents the emerging practices of healthcare waste (HCW) management prevailing in most private surgeries within the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality.
Tshepiso K. Hlako +3 more
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Healthcare waste generation and quantification in public health centres in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundHealthcare waste produced in healthcare activities entails higher risk of infection and injuries than municipal waste. In developing countries healthcare waste has not received much attention and has been disposed of together with municipal ...
Menelik Legesse Tadesse
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Complexities of nursing in healthcare waste management in hospitals. [PDF]
Rev Bras EnfermABSTRACT Objectives: to understand how healthcare waste management is developed by nursing professionals in hospitals. Methods: qualitative research, whose theoretical and methodological frameworks were Complexity Theory and Grounded Theory. Thirty-two nursing professionals from a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro participated in the study.
Ferreira MJC +5 more
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Healthcare waste management in selected government and private hospitals in Southeast Nigeria
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2016 Objective: To assess healthcare workers' involvement in healthcare waste management in public and private hospitals. Methods: Validated questionnaires (n = 660) were administered to randomly selected healthcare workers from selected private hospitals ...
Angus Nnamdi Oli +6 more
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A Review of the Applicability of Current Green Practices in Healthcare Facilities [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023 Background Circular economy (CE) has raised great interest as a concept and as a development model worldwide. This concept aims to provide a substitute for the linear economic model, which was based on production and consumption, continuous growth, and ...
Ana Luísa Soares +7 more
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Healthcare waste characteristics and management in regional hospital and private clinic [PDF]
Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 2023 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Good health and a safe environment are essential for sustainable development, including the appropriate management of healthcare wastes. The study intends to assess the generation rate and management methods of healthcare waste
S. Ajbar El Gueriri +5 more
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Waste Management
Düzce Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021 Waste management has been a great problem globally for at least five decades. Some of the developed countries could initiated certain processes to benefit from the waste.
İlhan Öztürk
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Identifying and Predicting Healthcare Waste Management Costs for an Optimal Sustainable Management System: Evidence from the Greek Public Sector [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Fotios Rizos, Pantelis G Bagos
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 This study presents a comprehensive analysis on policies governing the management of COVID-19 waste in the Philippines, highlighting gaps in pre-existing policies and opportunities for further policy development and adaptation in the context of present ...
Geminn Louis Carace Apostol +3 more
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Eliminating waste in healthcare spending [PDF]
BMJ, 2017 There is no silver bullet—just incremental change based on good data Health systems in all countries—no matter how they are organised, funded, and regulated—should strive to maximise benefits to patients for every pound, dollar, or euro they spend.
Kalipso, Chalkidou, John, Appleby
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