Healthcare waste management in Asian developing countries: A mini review

BA Khan, L Cheng, AA Khan… - Waste management & …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Healthcare waste encompasses a significant quantity of hazardous substances. Poor
healthcare waste management can result in serious environmental and human health risks …

International governance structures for health-care waste management: A systematic review of scientific literature

M Caniato, T Tudor, M Vaccari - Journal of environmental management, 2015 - Elsevier
Significant differences exist in the management of health-care waste management, globally.
This is particularly so between low, middle and high-income countries. A systematic review …

Overcoming challenges due to enhanced biomedical waste generation during COVID-19 pandemic

PC Ojha, SS Satpathy, AK Ojha, LB Sukla… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biomedical wastes (BMWs) are potentially infectious to the environment and health. They
are co-dependent and accumulative during the ongoing coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID …

Knowledge, attitude, and practices of Bio-medical Waste Management rules, 2016; Bio-medical Waste Management (amendment) rules, 2018; and Solid Waste Rules …

A Parida, MR Capoor… - Journal of laboratory …, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
INTRODUCTION: Biomedical waste poses physical, chemical, radiological, and
microbiological risks to the public and health-care workers (HCWs) for current and future …

Effectiveness of intensive healthcare waste management training model among health professionals at teaching hospitals of Pakistan: a quasi-experimental study

R Kumar, R Somrongthong, BT Shaikh - BMC health services research, 2015 - Springer
Background Infectious waste management has always remained a neglected public health
problem in the developing countries, resulting in high burden of environmental pollution …

Clinical waste management in district hospitals of Tumpat, Batu Pahat and Taiping

D Omar, SN Nazli, A Subramaniam… - Procedia-Social and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The research is a cross-sectionalcomparative study carried out to determine the variations
andsimilarities in the activities of clinical waste managementpractices within three district …

Developing models for the prediction of hospital healthcare waste generation rate

E Tesfahun, A Kumie, A Beyene - Waste Management & …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
An increase in the number of health institutions, along with frequent use of disposable
medical products, has contributed to the increase of healthcare waste generation rate. For …

Nanoparticles impact in biomedical waste management

PM Patil, RA Bohara - Waste Management & Research, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Effectual management of biomedical waste is obligatory for healthy human beings and for a
safe environment. Mismanagement of biomedical waste is a community health problem …

[PDF][PDF] Knowledge, attitude and practices of health staff regarding infectious waste handling of tertiary care health facilities at metropolitan city of Pakistan

R Kumar, R Samrongthong, BT Shaikh - J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad, 2013 - academia.edu
Background: Health Care Waste (HCW) is considered as the second dangerous waste in the
World that needs to be properly disposed by trained health care staff. Good knowledge …

Healthcare waste management: a state-of-the-art literature review

A Chauhan, A Singh - International Journal of Environment …, 2016 - inderscienceonline.com
Enormous amount of waste generation is a critical issue across the world. This issue
becomes more vital when various types of hazardous waste gets mixed up with general …