Environmental impact of personal protective equipment distributed for use by health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic | Zendy

Chantelle Rizan | Zendy; Malcolm Reed | Zendy; Mahmood F. Bhutta | Zendy

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Environmental impact of personal protective equipment distributed for use by health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s) -

Chantelle Rizan,

Malcolm Reed,

Mahmood F. Bhutta

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/01410768211001583

Subject(s) - carbon footprint , personal protective equipment , face shield , pandemic , environmental impact assessment , reuse , medicine , health care , environmental health , covid-19 , life cycle assessment , engineering , waste management , ecology , greenhouse gas , production (economics) , disease , macroeconomics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , biology , economic growth

To quantify the environmental impact of personal protective equipment (PPE) distributed for use by the health and social care system to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in England, and model strategies for mitigating the environmental impact.

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