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Title	Safe Management of Wastes from Health-Care Activities
Summary	To download individual chapters (PDF format), click on the titles below: Table of contents - foreword and acknowlegments 1. Introduction 2. Definition and characterization of health-care waste 3. Health impacts of health-care waste 4. Legislative - regulatory and policy aspects 5. Health-care waste management planning 6. Waste minimization - recycling and reuse 7. Handling - storage and transportation of health-care waste 8. Treatment and disposal technologies for health-care waste 9. Application of treatment and disposal methods to health-care waste categories 10. Collection and disposal of wastewater 11. Costs related to health-care waste management 12. Health and safety practices for health-care personnel and waste workers 13. Emergency response 14. Hospital hygiene and infection control 15. Training 16. Minimal programmes for health-care waste management Glossary of terms used in the book Annexes
Author	WHO / Annette Pruess, E. Giroult, P. Rushbrook
Year	1999
Nb pages	228
Language	english
Editor	WHO - Geneva ISBN 92 4 154525 9 Order no. 1150453
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Type of document	teacher's guide
Level(s)	national large HCFs medium HCFs small HCFs
Step(s)	generation intermediate storage internal transport external transport treatment and final disposal
Thematic(s):	regulatory training technologies management
Region	All areas
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