I am curious to know if there is any system to classify health-care facilities (HCFs) and countries according to their health-care waste management practices.
Af far as I know, only the rapid assessment tool (RAT) and the individualized RAT (I-RAT) could give a support, but I am not aware of any comprehensive list with the result of their application. Here the link to both the tools:
http://gefmedwaste.org/list.php?section_logic=79&template_section=80&fulltext=assessment&author=Search+by+Author&date[Y]=&date[M]=&First_Name_2014=&search=Search
Do you know about other classification tools available, please?
Nowadays Geographic Information System tools provide a better way to make spatial analysis of health related interventions. I teach a course entitled "GIS for environmental Public health". My students use GIS techniques to solve health related issues.
Dear prof. Setegn, thanks for your answer. It is a usefull idea for a general analysis a the country/regional scale.
However I need to classify the HCWM practices in different HCFs, in order to create a kind of hierarchy. A similar approach could be later applied to countries.
Dear Marco Caniato
Greetings
Of the total amount of waste generated by health-care activities, about 85% is general, non-hazardous waste comparable to domestic waste. The remaining 15% is considered hazardous material that may be infectious, toxic or radioactive...
I think you could find valid and valuable informations from latest edition of WHO book for health-care waste management .
The name of book is " Safe management of wastes from health-care activities"
You can download it from below link:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiwy-j705LRAhUEFSwKHfgoDwUQFggbMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.searo.who.int%2Fsrilanka%2Fdocuments%2Fsafe_management_of_wastes_from_healthcare_activities.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFlHv9qA1bgu9V4miLQmEOiTXBn_A&sig2=qjlAFKHvUY1X69yK2goOVw
Good luck
Dear Ata,
Thanks for your kind response. Actually the II edition of the Blue Book - WHO guidelines you wrote about - does not provide any useful indication for what I looked for.
However, I found a way to classify countries according to their health-care waste management practices. I wrote about it in the following literature review:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272292646_International_governance_structures_for_health-care_waste_management_A_systematic_review_of_scientific_literature
Best regards,
Marco
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