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Current State, Development and Future Directions of Medical Waste Valorization
Energies, 2023 Elevated medical waste has urged the improvement of sustainable medical waste treatments. A bibliometric analysis is initially conducted to investigate scientific development of medical waste management to pinpoint the publication trends, influential ...
Yin Ting Chu +4 more
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Uncovering waste in US healthcare [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2017 There is widespread agreement that the US healthcare system wastes as much as 5% of GDP, yet little consensus on what care is actually unproductive. This partly arises because of the endogeneity of patient choice of treatment location. This paper uses the effective random assignment of patients to ambulance companies to generate comparisons across ...
Doyle, Joseph J. +2 more
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Healthcare waste management and practices: A case study in Kodagu District, Karnataka, India [PDF]
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research, 2013 Inappropriate handling and disposal practices of healthcare waste (HCW) at healthcare centers are significantly increasing health and environmental hazards.
Harikaranahalli Puttaiah-Shivaraju +1 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Blantyre, Malawi’s Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), or Queen’s, as it’s known locally, is the country’s largest public hospital. However, Queen’s is not served by regular municipal waste collection. Rather, most hospital waste (infectious and non-
Elizabeth Tilley +7 more
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Correlates of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices about Health Care Waste Management among Hospital Workers of Pakistan [PDF]
JLUMHS, 2018 BACKGROUND: Healthcare waste is considered as neglected public health problem in developing countries. OBJECTIVES: We aimed this study to explore the factors affecting the Knowledge, attitude and practices of health workers regarding healthcare waste ...
Ramesh Kumar +3 more
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Recycling, 2018 There is lack of uniform nomenclature for healthcare waste (HCW) globally, which could undermine efforts to develop and implement appropriate policies relating to healthcare waste management (HCWM) in developing countries. This study sought to understand
Lydia Hangulu
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The impact of regulatory compliance behavior on hazardous waste generation in European private healthcare facilities [PDF]
, 2013 Along with the increased provision of healthcare by private outpatient healthcare facilities within the EU countries, there is also an increase on waste generation from these facilities.
Almeida JCN +7 more
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Sharps Injuries in Healthcare Waste Handlers [PDF]
The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 2008 Clinical waste disposal carries with it a risk of serious and possibly life-threatening infection. Combining confidential questionnaires and structured interviews with discrete observation, the attitudes and approach to safe handling of bulk clinical wastes by staff in a specialist waste treatment facility were assessed.
J I, Blenkharn, C, Odd
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Seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C among domestic and healthcare waste handlers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. [PDF]
, 2016 Infection with the hepatitis B and C viruses may occur through contact with infected body fluids, including injury with infected sharps. Collectors of domestic or healthcare wastes are potentially exposed to these infections.
Cairncross, Sandy +6 more
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Costs associated with the management of waste from healthcare facilities: an analysis at national and site level [PDF]
, 2017 Given rising spend on the provision of healthcare services, the sustainable management of waste from healthcare facilities is increasingly becoming a focus as a means of reducing public health risks and financial costs.
Perteghella, Andrea +2 more
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