Issues on medical waste management research

Waste Management

Volumn 48, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-2

  Komilis, Dimitrios P ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HOSPITAL WASTE; HUMAN; INCINERATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ECONOMICS; PROCEDURES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

HOSPITAL WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

DISINFECTION; MEDICAL WASTE; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84952902871     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.12.020     Document Type: Editorial

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