Management of quality services: Waste management
For higher level managers
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WHO core principles for achieving safe and sustainable management of health-care waste
2007, WHO
Recommendations for action by governments, donors, service delivery organisations, the private sector and NGOs.
(2 pages, pdf 109KB) -
Safe Healthcare Waste Management: Policy Paper
2004, WHO
Unsafe health-care waste management leads to death and disability; health-care waste management as a risk to health; balancing risks to make sound policy decisions in health-care waste management; guiding policy principles; strategy
(2 pages, pdf 43KB) -
Aide-Memoire: Safe Health-Care Waste Management
2000, WHO
National policy; comprehensive system; awareness and training; selection of options; checklist for action at national and local level
(2 pages, pdf 73KB) -
Mercury in Health Care: WHO Policy Paper
2005, WHO
Mercury is highly toxic, especially when metabolized into methyl mercury. Health-care facilities are one of the main sources of mercury release into the atmosphere because of emissions from the incineration of medical waste.
(2 pages, pdf 33KB) -
Health Care Waste Management: Guidance for the Development and Implementation of a
National Action Plan
2004, WHO
Best practice, medium and long term plan; legal framework; roles and responsibilities; treatment processes; checklists
(11 pages, pdf 81KB) -
Preparation of National Health-Care Waste Management Plans in Sub-Saharan Countries:
Guidance Manual
2005, United Nations Environment Programme and WHO
Supervision and management structures for health care waste; risks; definitions and classification; minimum observance for health care waste management; awareness and protective measures for staff and the environment; steps for conducting an assessment, developing a national health care waste management plan and implementing it.
(Website with links to the whole manual {87 pages, pdf 1.1MB} or individual chapters ) -
Healthy Villages: A guide for Communities and Community Health Workers
Guy Howard, 2002, WHO
Achieving good health; water; excreta disposal; drainage; solid waste management and chemical safety; housing quality; personal, domestic and community hygiene; promoting hygiene; providing health care; establishing committees for thy village programmes; supporting healthy village initiatives
(Website with links to individual chapters - total 120 pages) -
Safe Management of Wastes from Health-care Activities
A. Prüss, E. Giroult and P. Rushbrook (eds.), 1999, WHO
Types of waste; impact; legistlation; management planning; waste minimization; recycling and reuse; handling; disposal; costs; training
(Website with links to 19 sections: click on the underlined headings to get the information - 230 pages in total) -
Teacher's Guide: Management of Wastes from Health-care Activities
A. Prüss and W. K. Townsend, 1998, WHO
This Teacher’s Guide accompanies the WHO publication Management of wastes from health-care activities (above). It provides teaching materials and recommendations for a three day training course, designed mainly for managers of health-care establishments, public health professionals and policy makers.
(Website with links to the manual and overhead transparencies)