Healthcare waste management in the prefectures of Aetoloakarnania and the Island of Lesbos, Greece

Global Nest Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 312-322

  Kamitsou, H A ^a   Kalavrouziotis, I K ^b   Papadaki, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Health and environmental protection; Waste Hospitals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931064458     PISSN: 17907632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30955/gnj.001602     Document Type: Article

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