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Assessment of occupational and environmental safety associated with medical waste disposal in developing countries: A qualitative approach
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A carefully designed survey of medical waste management in the capital city of Bangladesh is presented in this article, where a range of sampling strategies and data gathering techniques were used to collect data from healthcare establishments and other waste disposal operatives.About:
This article is published in Safety Science.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 130 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Waste disposal & Hazardous waste.read more
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Waste Mismanagement in Developing Countries: A Review of Global Issues.
TL;DR: The main impacts due to waste mismanagement in developing countries are reviewed, focusing on environmental contamination and social issues, and the activity of the informal sector in developing cities was also reviewed.
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Evaluating health-care waste treatment technologies using a hybrid multi-criteria decision making model
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a hybrid multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) model by integrating the 2-tuple DEMATEL technique and fuzzy MULTIMOORA method for selection of HCW treatment alternatives.
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A novel multi-criteria decision making method for assessing health-care waste treatment technologies based on D numbers
TL;DR: A novel multi-criteria decision making method based on an effective representation model of uncertain information, called D numbers, which provides a new framework for the HCW treatment technology selection problem in which it was effective and feasible to handle MCDM problems under various uncertainties environment.
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Hospital waste management in developing countries: A mini review.
TL;DR: This study summarizes the main issues faced in hospital waste management in developing countries and suggests sustainable waste management practices can go a long way in reducing the harmful effects of hospital wastes.
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Application of interval 2-tuple linguistic MULTIMOORA method for health-care waste treatment technology evaluation and selection.
TL;DR: Results show that the proposed ITL-MULTIMOORA can solve the HCW treatment technology selection problem effectively under uncertain and incomplete information environment.
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Health risks of heavy metals in contaminated soils and food crops irrigated with wastewater in Beijing, China
TL;DR: It is highlighted that both adults and children consuming food crops grown in wastewater-irrigated soils ingest significant amount of the metals studied, however, health risk index values of less than 1 indicate a relative absence of health risks associated with the ingestion of contaminated vegetables.
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Heavy metal content of vegetables irrigated with mixtures of wastewater and sewage sludge in Zimbabwe: Implications for human health
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied heavy metal concentrations in crops irrigated with sewage sludge and sewage/sewage sludge admixtures at Firle Municipal Farm in Harare.
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Heavy metals in soil, vegetables and fruits in the endemic upper gastrointestinal cancer region of Turkey
TL;DR: The volcanic soil, fruit and vegetable samples of Van region in Eastern Turkey contain potentially carcinogenic heavy metals in such a high levels that these elements could be related to the high prevalence of upper GI cancer rates in Van region.
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A system dynamics approach for hospital waste management.
TL;DR: It is found that waste segregation, as well as infectious waste treatment prior to disposal, has to be conducted properly by the hospital management, especially when scavenging takes place in landfill sites in developing countries.