Assessment of Available Technologies for Hospital Waste Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 791-807
Author(s):  
Alok Rai ◽  
Richa Kothari ◽  
D. P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Hospital Waste ◽  
Liquid Discharge ◽  
Hospital Wastes ◽  
Hospital Practices ◽  
Modern Hospital

Modern hospital practices with galloping growth in medical technology facilitate increase human life span, decrease mortality rate and increase natality rate. Life supporting health services generates potentially hazardous and infectious hospital wastes like pharmaceuticals, cottons, food, paper, plastics, radionuclide, sharps, and anatomical parts etc. These wastes are complex in nature with maximum part of municipal solid waste and small part of biomedical waste (anatomical parts, body parts etc.). Improper conduct and management of hospital waste create several problems and nosocomial diseases to human beings and harms environment. Traditional practices included for management are open burning, mixing waste, liquid discharge and waste disposal without treatment normally. Hence, this issue comes in lime light and several guidelines come to sort out this problem. Thus, challenges associated with traditional hospital waste management techniques and modern techniques for management are assessed in general and association with human society in particular in this chapter.

Assessment of Available Technologies for Hospital Waste Management

2017 ◽  
pp. 172-188
Author(s):  
Alok Rai ◽  
Richa Kothari ◽  
D. P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Hospital Waste ◽  
Liquid Discharge ◽  
Hospital Wastes ◽  
Hospital Practices ◽  
Modern Hospital

Modern hospital practices with galloping growth in medical technology facilitate increase human life span, decrease mortality rate and increase natality rate. Life supporting health services generates potentially hazardous and infectious hospital wastes like pharmaceuticals, cottons, food, paper, plastics, radionuclide, sharps, and anatomical parts etc. These wastes are complex in nature with maximum part of municipal solid waste and small part of biomedical waste (anatomical parts, body parts etc.). Improper conduct and management of hospital waste create several problems and nosocomial diseases to human beings and harms environment. Traditional practices included for management are open burning, mixing waste, liquid discharge and waste disposal without treatment normally. Hence, this issue comes in lime light and several guidelines come to sort out this problem. Thus, challenges associated with traditional hospital waste management techniques and modern techniques for management are assessed in general and association with human society in particular in this chapter.

Assessment of Available Technologies for Hospital Waste Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 860-876
Author(s):  
Alok Rai ◽  
Richa Kothari ◽  
D. P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Hospital Waste ◽  
Liquid Discharge ◽  
Hospital Wastes ◽  
Hospital Practices ◽  
Modern Hospital

Modern hospital practices with galloping growth in medical technology facilitate increase human life span, decrease mortality rate and increase natality rate. Life supporting health services generates potentially hazardous and infectious hospital wastes like pharmaceuticals, cottons, food, paper, plastics, radionuclide, sharps, and anatomical parts etc. These wastes are complex in nature with maximum part of municipal solid waste and small part of biomedical waste (anatomical parts, body parts etc.). Improper conduct and management of hospital waste create several problems and nosocomial diseases to human beings and harms environment. Traditional practices included for management are open burning, mixing waste, liquid discharge and waste disposal without treatment normally. Hence, this issue comes in lime light and several guidelines come to sort out this problem. Thus, challenges associated with traditional hospital waste management techniques and modern techniques for management are assessed in general and association with human society in particular in this chapter.

scholarly journals Eating Human Beings: Varieties of Cannibalism and the Heterogeneity of Human Life

Philosophy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-501
Author(s):  
Mikel Burley
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Flesh ◽  
Ways Of Being

AbstractPhilosophy as well as anthropology is a discipline concerned with what it means to be human, and hence with investigating the multiple ways of making sense of human life. An important task in this process is to remain open to diverse conceptions of human beings, not least conceptions that may on the face of it appear to be morally alien. A case in point are conceptions that are bound up with cannibalism, a practice sometimes assumed to be so morally scandalous that it probably never happens, at least in a culturally sanctioned form. Questioning this assumption, along with Cora Diamond's contention that the very concept of a human being involves a prohibition against consuming human flesh, the present article explores how cannibalism can have an intelligible place in a human society – exemplified by the Wari’ of western Brazil. By coming to see this, we are enabled to enlarge our conception of the heterogeneity of possible ways of being human.

Preserving the world for Christ

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

AbstractThe practices, habits and convictions that once allowed the inhabitants of Christendom to determine what they could reasonably do and say together to foster a just and equitable common life have slowly been displaced over the past few centuries by new configurations which have sought to maintain an inherited faith in an underlying purpose to human life while disassociating themselves from the God who had been the beginning and end of that faith. In the end, however, these new configurations are incapable of sustained deliberations about the basic conditions of our humanity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology provides important clues into what it takes to make and keep human life human in such a world. The first part of this essay examines Bonhoeffer's conception of the last things, the things before the last, and what binds them together. He argues that the things before the last do not possess a separate, autonomous existence, and that the positing of such a breach has had disastrous effects on human beings and the world they inhabit. The second part looks at Bonhoeffer's account of the divine mandates as the conceptual basis for coping with a world that has taken leave of God. Though this account of the mandates has much to commend it, it is hindered by problematic habits of interpretation that leave it vacillating between incommensurable positions. Bonhoeffer's incomplete insights are thus subsumed within Augustine's understanding of the two orders of human society set forth in City of God.

scholarly journals Sustainability Contested: Analysis of Stakeholders Participation in Municipal Solid Waste Management - A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 974-988
Author(s):  
Vishnu J. Menon ◽  
Antony Palackal
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The Government

Waste has always been a part of human life settlement and we have been either very careless with our waste by discarding it into the streets, the air, water, and in our backyards, or consciously dumping it close to those least powerful segments of the society at all times. Waste has been a problem for human beings and people have been least concerned about its eco-friendly disposal. Developed countries came up with many programmes, regulations and policies to address the municipal solid waste crisis, but still it is an unresolved problem. Municipal solid waste management is still a complex issue everywhere in the globalized and techno scientific world due to the carefree mindset, rapid urbanization process, unscientific development process and lack of social responsibility. In these circumstances, municipal solid waste managementcannot be addressed by mere technological innovations or adoptions. Moreover, the responsibility of municipal solid waste managementcannot be left to the Government alone. Instead, participation of various stakeholders needs to be ensured and coordinated for achieving sustainability. Taking Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation in the state of Kerala, India as a case, this paper discusses the extent and ways in which various stakeholders engage in the two main approaches for municipal solid waste management, namely- centralized approach and decentralized approach. The research study was conducted during the period June, 2020 to December, 2020.

scholarly journals Hospital waste management in developing countries: A mini review

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 581-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Ali ◽  
Wenping Wang ◽  
Nawaz Chaudhry ◽  
Yong Geng
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Hospital Waste ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Safe Management ◽  
Waste Segregation ◽  
Hospital Wastes ◽  
Waste Management Practices

Health care activities can generate different kinds of hazardous wastes. Mismanagement of these wastes can result in environmental and occupational health risks. Developing countries are resource-constrained when it comes to safe management of hospital wastes. This study summarizes the main issues faced in hospital waste management in developing countries. A review of the existing literature suggests that regulations and legislations focusing on hospital waste management are recent accomplishments in many of these countries. Implementation of these rules varies from one hospital to another. Moreover, wide variations exist in waste generation rates within as well as across these countries. This is mainly attributable to a lack of an agreement on the definitions and the methodology among the researchers to measure such wastes. Furthermore, hospitals in these countries suffer from poor waste segregation, collection, storage, transportation and disposal practices, which can lead to occupational and environmental risks. Knowledge and awareness regarding proper waste management remain low in the absence of training for hospital staff. Moreover, hospital sanitary workers, and scavengers, operate without the provision of safety equipment or immunization. Unsegregated waste is illegally recycled, leading to further safety risks. Overall, hospital waste management in developing countries faces several challenges. Sustainable waste management practices can go a long way in reducing the harmful effects of hospital wastes.

scholarly journals Hospital Waste Management in Tangail Municipality

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
MY Mia ◽  
MA Ali ◽  
MA Rahman ◽  
L Naznin ◽  
MU Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Hospital Waste ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Hospital Wastes ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Waste Handling

An investigation was conducted on hospital waste management in Tangail Municipality and its impact on human health. Data was collected through questionnaire interview from local residents, superintendents, nurses, observation and secondary sources. The results revealed that wastes are collected every alternative day and though sometime in irregular basis. Hospital wastes causes different health hazards like bad smell, infestation of animals, diarrhoea, skin diseases etc. due to irregular collection, unsafe handling, disposal, storage, transportation and finally dumped with municipal wastes. For knowing health impacts, among 110 general respondents 63% was affected, and 50 respondents who were associated with medical waste handling including nurse,  pickers, workers, etc. in which more than 90% were affected one or more diseases due to improper management and imposed of hospital wastes. Shortage of dustbin is common in every hospitals and clinics in Tangail Municipality. The study also revealed that 1000-1500kg wastes were generated per day in Tangail Municipal area in which 19.23% infectious and 80.77% noninfectious. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jesnr.v5i1.11566 J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 5(1): 121 - 127, 2012  

scholarly journals A Muslim Theory of Human Society

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
Suleman Dangor
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Human Life ◽  
International Seminar ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Kuala Lumpur

l11e book is composed of an introduction, five chapters, a bibliography, andan index. In the first chapter, the author presents Malik Bennabi's understandingof religion and its pace in human life. The second chapter outlines his viewsas to why human beings associate with each other and form societies. The thirdchapter deals with the constitution and dynamics of society as conceived byBennabi. The fourth chapter is devoted to culture which features prominentlyin his writings. The final chapter discusses his cyclical theory of human socioculturaland historical development.The author informs us that he was introduced to Bennabi's thoughts by readinghis Le Phenomene Coranique (The Qur'anic Phenomenon). He was soimpressed with Bennabi's writing that when he contributed an article on theprospects of an Islamic theory of human society, he referred not only to theworks of Ali Shariati, Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr, Murtaza Mutahhari, but alsoto Bennabi. An international seminar on Malik Bennabi held at the Universityof Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in 1991 gave him the opportunity to read a paperdealing with Bennabi's contribution to social theory, in addition to inspiring ...

scholarly journals Inadequacies in Hospital Waste and Sewerage Management in Chattogram, Bangladesh: Exploring Environmental and Occupational Health Hazards

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9077
Author(s):  
Batool Behnam ◽  
Shafiqua Nawrin Oishi ◽  
Sayed Mohammad Nazim Uddin ◽  
Nazifa Rafa ◽  
Sayed Mohammad Nasiruddin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Private Hospital ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Hospital Wastewater ◽  
Hospital Waste ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Hospital Wastes

Bangladesh has been grappling with the issues of improper hospital waste management. To reflect the inadequacies in existing management practices and the potential implications on the environment and health, this study evaluated the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of doctors and nurses in a private and a public hospital in Chattogram city via a structured questionnaire survey. At the public hospital, 20.4% of the doctors and 6% of the nurses had occupational illnesses, compared to 36% of the doctors and 26.5% of the nurses at the private hospital. At the public hospital, 67.8% of the nurses wore PPE during waste collection, compared to 17.7% in the private hospital. Hospital wastes and occupational safety are not properly dealt with in both hospitals. An inadequacy was observed in the knowledge of hospital waste management among healthcare workers. The route of hospital wastes from the sources to the end destination was also traced via interviews and focus group discussions, which revealed that disposal practices of the hospital solid waste were environmentally unsustainable. In attempts to show opportunities for environmental and health risks from the hospital wastewater, this study also investigated the quality of the wastewater and tested it for the presence of resistant enteric pathogens. E. coli and S. aureus from both hospitals showed resistance against some common antibiotics used in Bangladesh. The physicochemical properties of the samples were nearly compliant with the Bangladesh Water Quality Standards for hospital wastewater. While more robust sampling and water quality analysis are required, this study provides basic water quality indicators and scope for future research to understand the apparent significant negative impact on the environment and health.

Psychological and Pedagogical Foundations of Forming Environmental Culture among Students by Means of Tourist Activities

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 523
Author(s):  
Natalya BODNEVA ◽  
Tatiana SRIBNAYA ◽  
Dilara FURSOVA ◽  
Nikolai STAROSTENKOV ◽  
Kira ESAULOVA
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact

Regardless of the development of human society and the introduction of new technologies (information, information-telecommunication), a person is mainly a biosocial being. Besides significant social characteristics and virtues, the main feature of each person is belonging to a large self-sufficient system. Thus, human beings differ from other species since they can exist in nature while creating their own culture and living conditions by means of mental and physical work. With the course of time and the emergence of innovations, the environment where people live undergoes global changes. The speed and extent of technological impact on the environment cannot be assessed due to many factors, including the multiplicative negative effect on the environment caused by products of modern civilization. In this regard, such science as ecology has become especially relevant. Environmental knowledge is vital to make the dream of many generations of thinkers come true and create a decent human environment ensuring the harmony of people and nature. Ecology helps analyze the impact of human life on the environment. The study of ecology cannot be conducted only at the level of the scientific community; each person should know its elementary problems and ways to build their personal life to effectively promote the harmonious development of society. Therefore, this article addresses the problem of environmental education, including the use of modern achievements, such as information, information and telecommunication technologies. The formation of environmental consciousness is necessary so that global problems are not regarded as mythical threats.

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