| Autor: |
Patricia Torres L, Carlos A. Madera P, Luis F. Marmolejo R |
| Jazyk: |
Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, Vol 28, Iss 1, Pp 56-63 (2010) |
| Popis: |
Health-care institutions must offer adequate conditions for both employers and users in order to maintain, improve or recover their health status; inadequate health-care solid waste (h s w) management is an obstacle to achieve this goal. Objective:to estimate the quantity and composition of h s w in ten healthcare public institutions located in ten municipalities in northern Valle del Cauca region (Colombia). Methodology: quantity and composition of h s w was estimated through two 24 hours sampling rounds. Results: the proportion of hazardous healthcare solid waste (h h s w) was usually equal to or higher than 25% and it also surpassed the mean average values reported by organizations like World Health Organization; bio-sanitary waste was the category with major proportion in the h h s w fraction. Discussion: the values obtained in order to determine indicators as kg/bed-day and kg/patient-day were in a lower or equal range of those values reported by different institutional or scientific sources. Considering the health-care services offered in the evaluated institutions, the kg/patient-day indicator is considered more representative than the kg/bed-day. |
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OpenAIRE |
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