Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare

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Autor(a) principal: Borowy,Iris
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: História. Ciências. Saúde-Manguinhos
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Resumo: Abstract Hospitals and other health facilities generate an ever-increasing amount of waste, approximately 15% of which may be infectious, toxic, or radioactive. The World Health Organization has been addressing the issue since the 1980s. After initially focusing on high-income countries, it then focused on low-income countries, with unsafe disposal methods in landfills and inadequate incinerators as major concerns. Gradually, the understanding of the issue has undergone several shifts, including from a focus on the component of medical waste considered “hazardous” to all forms of waste, and from accepting medical waste as a necessary downside of high-quality healthcare to seeing the avoidance of healthcare waste as a component of high quality healthcare.
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title Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare
spellingShingle Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare
Borowy,Iris
healthcare waste
medical waste
World Health Organization (WHO)
incineration
recycling
title_short Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare
title_full Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare
title_fullStr Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare
title_full_unstemmed Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare
title_sort Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare
author Borowy,Iris
author_facet Borowy,Iris
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv healthcare waste
medical waste
World Health Organization (WHO)
incineration
recycling
topic healthcare waste
medical waste
World Health Organization (WHO)
incineration
recycling
description Abstract Hospitals and other health facilities generate an ever-increasing amount of waste, approximately 15% of which may be infectious, toxic, or radioactive. The World Health Organization has been addressing the issue since the 1980s. After initially focusing on high-income countries, it then focused on low-income countries, with unsafe disposal methods in landfills and inadequate incinerators as major concerns. Gradually, the understanding of the issue has undergone several shifts, including from a focus on the component of medical waste considered “hazardous” to all forms of waste, and from accepting medical waste as a necessary downside of high-quality healthcare to seeing the avoidance of healthcare waste as a component of high quality healthcare.
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