Hospital waste operational procedures: A case study in Brazil

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 377-382

  Pacheco Ferreira, Aldo ^a   Veiga, Marcelo Motta ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Environmental pollution; Hospital waste; Public health; Sanitary disposal; Waste management; wmr 591 3

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; WASTE TREATMENT;

HOSPITAL WASTE MANAGEMENT;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CASE STUDY; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERATOR; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL WASTE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0141828362     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242x0302100410     Document Type: Article

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