Staff perception on biomedical or health care waste management: a qualitative study in a rural tertiary care hospital in India.
Health care or biomedical waste, if not managed properly, can be of high risk to the hospital staff, the patients, the community, public health and the environment, especially in low and middle income settings where proper disposal norms are often not followed. Our aim was to explore perceptions of...
Main Authors: | Sudhir Chandra Joshi, Vishal Diwan, Ashok J Tamhankar, Rita Joshi, Harshada Shah, Megha Sharma, Ashish Pathak, Ragini Macaden, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4449010?pdf=render |
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