As the link between health and environmental quality is receiving due attention, the commitment to safeguard the environment from both the physical and social impacts associated with hospital waste is growing. Many aspects of human well-being are influenced by the environment and many diseases can be initiated, promoted, sustained or stimulated by environmental factors. Environmental health is ...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the study was to assess the awareness and performance towards dental waste including mercury management policy and practices among the dental practitioners in North India. MATERIALS AND METHODS An epidemiologic survey was conducted among 200 private dental practitioners. The survey form was composed of 29 self-administered questions frame based on knowledge, attitu...

The Healthy Hospital Project, an international collaboration, aimed to strengthen Ecuador's capacity to promote healthier and safer hospitals by reducing occupational transmission of infectious diseases. Team members conducted a needs assessment to identify workplace hazards and health risks in three hospitals. A survey of health care workers' knowledge and practices of occupational health (OH)...

In an effort to minimize the risks for scientists exposure to the infectious environment and avoiding infectious incident, high-level bio-safety laboratories are designed and constructed to improve experimental safety by preventing laboratory infectious waste causing harm to people or the environment. The possibility of high-risk pathogens spread to the public environment with flow of people an...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) shifts the characteristics of municipal waste. This paper aims to provide an overview trends, impacts, and management during COVID-19 pandemic globally. increase in generation plastic waste infectious is a new challenge pandemic. It was found that emergence due consumption food delivery becomes issue several countries. Despite increment generation, mass l...

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Regulation focused on the control of microbiological hazards is important in reducing the incidence of infectious disease. Controls are required throughout the water and waste cycle and many stages are inter-related. The regulator should, therefore, take a ‘whole of system’ view of microbiological risks and ensure that essential and cost-effective interventions are promoted. This chapter provid...

The survival of selected viruses in Lactobacillus- and yeast-fermented edible waste material was studied to determine the feasibility of using this material as a livestock feed ingredient. Five viruses, including Newcastle disease virus, infectious canine hepatitis virus, a porcine picornavirus, frog virus 3, and bovine virus diarrhea, were inoculated into a mixture of ground food waste (collec...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to identify the sources of waste generation household consisting of biological material and to investigate the knowledge presented by those responsible for the generation of waste in the home environment on the potential health risk human and environmental. METHOD It is a quantitative survey performed in Parque Capuava, Santo André (SP). The questionna...