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Characteristics of healthcare wastes

Waste Management, 2008
A comprehensive understanding of the quantities and characteristics of the material that needs to be managed is one of the most basic steps in the development of a plan for solid waste management. In this case, the material under consideration is the solid waste generated in healthcare facilities, also known as healthcare waste.
L F, Diaz, L L, Eggerth, Sh, Enkhtsetseg, G M, Savage   +3 more
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Healthcare waste management in Asia

Waste Management, 2010
The risks associated with healthcare waste and its management has gained attention across the world in various events, local and international forums and summits. However, the need for proper healthcare waste management has been gaining recognition slowly due to the substantial disease burdens associated with poor practices, including exposure to ...
A Prem, Ananth, V, Prashanthini, C, Visvanathan   +2 more
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Insights into Healthcare-based Waste

2023
Globally, Covid-19 era, affects heavily to the whole world. In this timespan a huge increase in medical-usable products resulted into increase in healthcare-wastes which creates many types health related concerns worldwide. Medical-based wastes includes needles, scalpels, razors and broken glasses.
Yusuf, Mohd, Pal, Sukhvinder, Sharma, Varun Kumar, Sharma, Munesh, Ansari, Nizamul Haq, Halyal, Umarfarooq A.   +5 more
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Waste Not: The Management Imperative for Healthcare

Journal of Healthcare Management, 2012
As I write this, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has just made its recommendations for updates to the payment rates for hospital outpatient services and voted its support for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to launch a value-based purchasing program for ambulatory surgery centers by 2016.
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Qualitative Characterization of Healthcare Wastes

2020
The biological hazard inherent in the clinical wastes should be considered during the management and treatment process as well as the disposal into the environment. In this chapter, the risks associated with the clinical wastes as well as the management of these wastes are discussed.
Noman, Efaq, Al-Gheethi, Adel, A. Talip, Balkis, Radin Mohamed, Radin Maya Saphira   +3 more
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Insights of healthcare waste management practices in Vietnam

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020
Nowadays, together with the economic development, public health activities have gained substantial attention with increasing number of hospitals during the past decades. A multi-method approach involving site visits, questionnaires, and interviews, in combination with secondary data revealed that the healthcare waste (HCW) generation, varied with ...
Huyen T. T. Dang, Hung V. Dang, Tuong Q. Tran   +2 more
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Healthcare waste management: Current practices in selected healthcare facilities, Botswana

Waste Management, 2008
Healthcare waste management continues to present an array of challenges for developing countries, and Botswana is no exception. The possible impact of healthcare waste on public health and the environment has received a lot of attention such that Waste Management dedicated a special issue to the management of healthcare waste (Healthcare Wastes ...
Bontle, Mbongwe, Baagi T, Mmereki, Andrew, Magashula   +2 more
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Healthcare waste management--the global paradox.

Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA, 2008
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B. Townend, VALLINI, Giovanni
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Healthcare waste management in Algeria and Mostaganem department

Waste Management, 2009
Algeria as other developing countries faces an array of challenges for healthcare waste management. The management of healthcare waste is of major importance due to its public health risks and potential environmental hazards. Many efforts have been made by the government authorities in order to better manage the waste from healthcare facilities ...
Z, Bendjoudi, F, Taleb, F, Abdelmalek, A, Addou   +3 more
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Healthcare waste and sharps management

British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2014
Engineered sharps safety devices have delivered a substantial reduction in sharps injuries to healthcare professionals but disposal-related errors and subsequent injury to ancillary and support staff have remained largely unchanged. Obligations placed on employers by existing health and safety legislation, and more recently by the Health and Safety ...
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