Health Care Waste In Africa: A Silent Crisis?

2013 ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Asuquo Udofia ◽  
Jerome Nriagu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Waste

Health care waste disposal among private dentist in an Indian city: It's time to act

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishal Khandelwal ◽  
Sushma Khandelwal ◽  
Jandel Singh Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Indian City ◽  
Health Care Waste

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF HAZARDS OF WASTE MATERIALS IN CLINICS AND HOSPITALS: A RESEARCH

2014 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 011-014
Author(s):  
Ram Kumar Srivastava ◽  
Iqbal Ali ◽  
Puneet Wadhawani ◽  
Anand Kumar ◽  
Praveen Awasthi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Waste Materials ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Domestic Waste ◽  
Urban Waste ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Health Care Waste

AbstractWastes from the cities and villages cannot be avoided from man's existence. It is essential to safely put these unwanted or discarded material away, in the interest of the community. During human activities a lot of waste matter is produced due to various development project, industrialization and modernization of the community. In this study waste materials were collected from various hospitals and rural and urban residential areas. These wastes were divided into two main categories- Health care waste and domestic waste. The survey indicated 80% solid waste deals with the domestic and urban waste while only 20% deals with the health care waste. The health care waste is regarded hazardous and may cause a variety of health risk.

scholarly journals Health-Care Waste: Knowledge of Primary Care nurses

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 2367-2375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Mhirdaui Sanches ◽  
Karen Sayuri Mekaro ◽  
Rosely Moralez de Figueiredo ◽  
Silvia Carla da Silva André
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Chemical Waste ◽  
Know How ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Care Services ◽  
Primary Care Nurses ◽  
Health Care Waste

ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the knowledge of nurses on Health-Care Waste Management (HCW) in Family Health Units (FHU) of São Carlos city, São Paulo State. Method: exploratory, descriptive and quantitative approach. The research was carried out with nurses of 16 FHU of the municipality of São Carlos-SP. Data were collected through an interview using a tool validated and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: it is noteworthy that 68.7% (11) of the nurses did not know how to describe how chemical waste was sorted. In addition, regarding the treatment of HCW, 50.0% (8) of the nurses did not know if the general waste were subjected to some type of treatment. Conclusion: the HCW management can be considered a challenge in the nurses' agenda inserted in the Primary Care services, which refers to the need to implement periodic training on the management of this waste.

A new framework for health-care waste disposal alternative selection under multi-granular linguistic distribution assessment environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 106489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanbing Ju ◽  
Yuanyuan Liang ◽  
Martínez Luis ◽  
Ernesto D.R. Santibanez Gonzalez ◽  
Mihalis Giannakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Assessment Environment ◽  
Health Care Waste ◽  
New Framework

scholarly journals Waste Segregation FMEA Model Integrating Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set and the PAPRIKA Method

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1375 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Carmen Carnero
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Health Care Organization ◽  
Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Care Organization ◽  
Intuitionistic Fuzzy ◽  
Waste Segregation ◽  
Health Care Waste

Segregation is an important step in health care waste management. If done incorrectly, the risk of preventable infections, toxic effects, and injuries to care and non-care staff, waste handlers, patients, visitors, and the community at large, is increased. It also increases the risk of environmental pollution and prevents recyclable waste from being recovered. Despite its importance, it is acknowledged that poor waste segregation occurs in most health care organizations. This study therefore intends to produce, for the first time, a classification of failure modes related to segregation in the Nuclear Medicine Department of a health care organization. This will be done using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), by combining an intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted Euclidean distance operator, and the multicriteria method Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives (PAPRIKA). Subjective and objective weights of risk factors were considered simultaneously. The failure modes identified in the top three positions are: improper storage of waste (placing items in the wrong bins), improper labeling of containers, and bad waste management (inappropriate collection periods and bin set-up).

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