Healthy choices: Transforming our hospitals into environmentally healthy and safe places

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Sattler, Barbara ^a,b,c,d   Hall, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Environmental Health Nursing Graduate Program

^c Health Care Without Harm ^*

^d Hospitals for a Healthy Environment

Author keywords

Chemical pollutants; Environment; Environmental stewardship; Health; Medical waste management; Pesticides; Precautionary principles; Sustainable foods

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; NURSING CARE; REVIEW; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; NURSING CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548416623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10913734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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