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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Definition and characterization of health-care waste -- 2.1.General definition and classification -- 2.1.1.Sharps waste -- 2.1.2.Infectious waste -- 2.2.Pathological waste -- 2.3.Pharmaceutical waste, including genotoxic waste -- 2.4.Chemical wast...

Contents note continued: 3.1.7.Hazards from health-care waste-treatment methods -- 3.2.Public sensitivity -- 3.3.Public health impact -- 3.3.1.Impacts of infectious waste and sharps -- 3.3.2.Impacts of chemical and pharmaceutical waste -- 3.3.3.Impacts of genotoxic waste -- 3.3.4.Impacts of radioact...

Contents note continued: 4.3.7.Aarhus Convention of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe -- 4.4.Available guidance -- 4.4.1.World Health Organization Guidance -- 4.4.2.The International Solid Waste Association -- 4.4.3.ISWA policy document on health-care waste management -- 4.5.National...

Contents note continued: 5.3.5.Implementation of the waste-management plan -- 5.4.Minimum approach to planning -- 5.5.Desirable improvements to the minimum approach -- 5.6.References and further reading -- 6.Health-care waste minimization, reuse and recycling -- 6.1.The waste-management hierarchy --...

Contents note continued: 7.3.Collection within the health-care facility -- 7.4.Interim storage in medical departments -- 7.5.Onsite transport of waste -- 7.5.1.General requirements -- 7.5.2.Transport trolleys -- 7.5.3.Routing -- 7.6.Central storage inside health-care facilities -- 7.6.1.General requ...

Contents note continued: 8.2.3.Irradiation technologies -- 8.2.4.Biological processes -- 8.2.5.Mechanical processes -- 8.3.Suitability of treatment methods for infectious waste -- 8.4.Steam treatment technologies -- 8.4.1.Autoclaves -- 8.4.2.Integrated steam-based treatment systems -- 8.5.Microwave...

Contents note continued: 8.11.2.Anatomical waste, pathological waste, placenta waste and contaminated animal carcasses -- 8.11.3.Pharmaceutical waste -- 8.11.4.Cytotoxic waste -- 8.11.5.Chemical waste -- 8.11.6.Waste containing heavy metals -- 8.12.Land disposal -- 8.12.1.Municipal and other externa...

Contents note continued: 9.3.1.Sewerage systems for health-care facilities -- 9.3.2.Pretreatment of hazardous liquids -- 9.4.Discharge into municipal sewage systems -- 9.5.Onsite wastewater treatment -- 9.5.1.Wastewater-treatment systems -- 9.5.2.Disinfection of wastewater -- 9.5.3.Disposal of sludg...

Contents note continued: 10.2.1.Costs at a health-care facility level -- 10.2.2.Costs at a central treatment facility level -- 10.2.3.Costs at a national level -- 10.3.Cost estimation -- 10.4.Cost and financing -- 10.4.1.Methods of financing -- 10.4.2.Costing tools -- 10.4.3.Pricing models for a tre...

Contents note continued: 11.5.Minimum approaches to health and safety practices -- 11.6.Desirable improvements to the minimum approach -- 11.7.References and further reading -- 12.Hospital hygiene and infection control -- 12.1.Guiding principles -- 12.2.Chain of infection -- 12.3.Epidemiology of nos...

Contents note continued: 13.2.Education and training of health-care personnel -- 13.2.1.Planning and implementation -- 13.2.2.Employees to be trained -- 13.2.3.Content of education programmes -- 13.2.4.Follow-up and refresher courses -- 13.2.5.Training responsibility -- 13.3.Implementation of a trai...

Contents note continued: 14.1.Guiding principles -- 14.2.Phases for the safe management of health-care waste in emergencies -- 14.2.1.Phase one: rapid initial assessment -- 14.2.2.Phase two: emergency response -- 14.2.3.Phase three: recovery phase -- 14.3.Contingency planning and emergency preparedn...