Open AccessHealth-care Waste Management and Risk Factors Among Health Professionals in Public Health Facilities of South Omo Zone, South West Ethiopia, 2018
Author(s) -
Esayas Gizalew,
Meseret Girma,
Desta Haftu,
Chuchu Churko,
Zeleke Girma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of healthcare leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.384
H-Index - 11
ISSN - 1179-3201
DOI - 10.2147/jhl.s300729
Subject(s) - health care , medicine , environmental health , biomedical waste , public health , descriptive statistics , logistic regression , nursing , statistics , mathematics , economics , economic growth
Health-care waste is a great concern because, in addition to containing conventional toxic pollutants like mercury, chlorinated plastics, and solvents; it also includes a number of toxic materials not found in typical waste. There were no scientific data in Ethiopia that reveal practice toward management of health-care waste. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the management of health professionals toward health-care waste in South Omo zone public health facilities, South West Ethiopia, 2018.