Healthcare waste generation worldwide and its dependence on socio-economic and environmental factors

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Minoglou, Minas ^a   Gerassimidou, Spyridoula ^b   Komilis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlation; Economic factors; Generation rates; Healthcare waste; Regression modeling; Social factors

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABILITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85013498091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9020220     Document Type: Article

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