Policy assessmentSuggestionHealthcare waste management represents a challenge in China due to insufficient legislation and financial investment, lack of awareness and effective regulations, lack of trained clinical staffs in the waste management framework etc. This study considered the issues of existing ...
Healthcare activities lead to the production of waste that may lead to adverse health effects. Most of this waste is not more dangerous than regular household waste. However, some types of healthcare waste represent a higher risk to health. These include infectious waste (15-25 percent of tota...
Further investigations showed that 52% of the health-care workers knew about the existence of a hospital waste management policy and 89% attested that they had received training on medical waste management. The existing waste management committee was however, non-functional. Waste segregation at ...
The health workers were unaware of relevant regulations and the existence of a hospital waste management policy. Recommendations have been made for staff training to create awareness on wastes, their effects, importance of existing guidelines and the implementation of the waste management options for ...
There is need to have a good and comprehensive waste management policy, guidelines and plan which will provide a proper waste management structure to alleviate the problem. Some of the proposed recommendations may be implemented at the facility level as short term while others at the national ...
healthcare waste in the world. As authors of the guidance on waste management for both the National Health Service and the Royal College of Nursing, we were influential on changing the approach to the management of certain healthcare waste streams, including infection risk and offensive waste ...
Healthcare waste management in Asia The risks associated with healthcare waste and its management has gained attention across the world in various events, local and international forums and s... AP Ananth,V Prashanthini,C Visvanathan - 《Waste Management》 被引量: 96发表: 2010年 Hazardous ...
Health care waste generation depends on numerous factors, such as established waste-management methods, type of health care establishment, hospital specialty, the proportion of reusable items employed in health care, and proportion of patients treated on a day-care basis. In middle- and low-income...
Rethinking waste managementThe healthcare sector faces a daunting challenge: balancing patient safety and sustainability. There is an enormous amount of waste left behind by the pandemic – masks, tests, protective suits – yet this is only the top of a massive mountain of garbage that demands ...
Building supply chain resilience will allow healthcare organizations to keep up with the demands of future disruptions in different areas of their supply chain, including waste management. Healthcare organizations need to be able to provide the best patient care, and making sure they are financially...