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Healthcare waste management in developing countries

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posted on 2006-06-01, 16:58 authored by M. Habibur Rahman, S. Mansoor Ali
This study presents a brief over view of the socioeconomic and health impacts of existing HCW management practices in developing countries in general with special emphasis on existing practices in Bangladesh. Information about existing HCW generation rates and their composition is also included. An attempt has been made to provide appropriate guidelines for potential practical solutions based upon the lessons learned from international case studies.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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RAHMAN, M.H. and ALI, M., 2000. Healthcare waste management in developing countries. IN: Pickford, J. (ed). Water, sanitation and hygiene - Challenges of the Millennium: Proceedings of the 26th WEDC International Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 5-9 November 2000, pp.198-201.

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© WEDC, Loughborough University

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2000

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This is a conference paper.

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WEDC_ID:10754

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  • en

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