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 …

Evaluation and selection of healthcare waste incinerators using extended sustainability criteria and multi-criteria analysis methods

A Puška, Ž Stević, D Pamučar - Environment, Development and …, 2022 - Springer
Disposal of healthcare waste is a key issue of environmental sustainability in the world. The
amount of healthcare waste is increasing every day, and it is necessary to adequately …

A novel EDAS approach on intuitionistic fuzzy set for assessment of health-care waste disposal technology using new parametric divergence measures

AR Mishra, A Mardani, P Rani, EK Zavadskas - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, health-care waste management is a challenging issue for both the public and
government sectors because it contains infectious, radioactive, or hazardous waste …

A novel multi-criteria decision making method for assessing health-care waste treatment technologies based on D numbers

F Xiao - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2018 - Elsevier
Health-care waste (HCW) management is a complex problem influenced by many aspects,
such as, economic, environment, technical, social, etc. A selection of the best treatment …

The interplay between corporate social responsibility at employee level, ethical leadership, quality of work life and employee pro-environmental behavior: the case of …

E Molnár, A Mahmood, N Ahmad, A Ikram… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been around for many decades.
However, even in 2021, its spectrum is still evolving. Several studies addressed CSR for …

Health care waste management among health workers and associated factors in primary health care facilities in Kampala City, Uganda: a cross-sectional study

ST Wafula, J Musiime, F Oporia - BMC public health, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Healthcare wastes (HCWs) are one of the most hazardous wastes
globally; second to only radiation waste. HCW management needs to be prioritized because …

The problem of not waste sorting behaviour, comparison of waste sorters and non-sorters in European Union: Cross-cultural analysis

A Minelgaitė, G Liobikienė - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract In the European Union (EU), 3.3% of respondents declared that they did not sort
waste at all. The level of non-sorter behaviour depends on the level of a country's economic …

Application of life cycle assessment for hospital solid waste management: A case study

M Ali, W Wang, N Chaudhry - Journal of the Air & Waste …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This study was meant to determine environmental aspects of hospital waste management
scenarios using a life cycle analysis approach. The survey for this study was conducted at …

Knowledge and practice of health workers about healthcare waste management in public health facilities in Eastern Ethiopia

T Doylo, T Alemayehu, N Baraki - Journal of community health, 2019 - Springer
Healthcare waste management (HWM) problems are growing with an ever-increasing
number of hospitals, clinics, diagnostic laboratories, etc in Ethiopia. Health workers are one …

Waste segregation FMEA model integrating intuitionistic fuzzy set and the PAPRIKA method

MC Carnero - Mathematics, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …