Personal and organizational predictors of physicians' knowledge, attitudes and practices related to medical waste management in Mazandaran province (northern Iran)

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 738-744

  Jabbari, H ^a   Farokhfar, M ^b   Jafarabadi, M Asghari ^b   Taghipour, H ^b   Bakhshian, F ^b   Rohane, S ^c  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

hospital; Medical waste management; physicians' knowledge, attitudes and practices

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CONCERNS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY PROCESS; PHYSICIANS' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES; RESPONSE RATE; SELF-ADMINISTERED QUESTIONNAIRE;

SURVEYS;

HOSPITALS;

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; DOMESTIC WASTE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PHYSICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SPECIALIST; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL WASTE; HUMAN; IRAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAINING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MEDICAL WASTE; PHYSICIANS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

IRAN; MAZANDARAN;

EID: 84863504664     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X12440478     Document Type: Article

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