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Review of Current Healthcare Waste Management Methods and Their Effect on Global Health
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Healthcare is a rapidly growing industry as medical treatments become more sophisticated, more in demand due to increasing incidence of chronic disease and more widely available worldwide. This booming industry is also creating more waste than ever before and, as such, there is a growing need to treat and dispose of this waste. Healthcare waste (HCW) disposal includes a multitude of disposal methods, including incineration, landfilling and chemical treatments. These rudimentary methods and their growing use present their own problems that negatively impact both the environment and, in turn, damage public health, thus contributing to a global healthcare crisis. The aim of this review was to examine the current HCW disposal methods in place and the harmful effects they have on the environment and on public health. The findings accumulated in this review demonstrate a heavy reliance on basic, low tech HCW disposal techniques and uncovered the negative impacts of these methods. There is a notable lack of employment of “greener” HCW disposal methods on a largescale due to cost, access and feasibility. Despite innovations in HCW disposal, there is no scalable, global green solution at present. Further, the review highlights that global health consequences of HCW disposal methods often differ depending on how developed the country is.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kenny, C., & Priyadarshini, A.
- Affiliations
- Technological University Dublin (IE)
- Corresponding author
- Priyadarshini, Anushree
- Venue
- Healthcare
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021-03-05
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 284
- ISSN
- 2227-9032 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7999172
- OpenAlex
- W3135115448
- Cited by
- 238
- References
- 135
- Citations by year
- 2026: 56 · 2025: 65 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 6
- FWCI
- 5.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Healthcare (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Arrow - TU Dublin (Technological University Dublin) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Lenus, The Irish Health Repository (Dr Steevens Hospital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Microbiology › Medical Device Sterilization and Disinfection
- Keywords
- medical waste management, medical waste disposal, incineration, landfilling, environmental impact, global health disparities, developing countries
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