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Business Logistics and Dealingwith Medical Waste Materials

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  • Nedeljko Kovacic
  • Marina Kovacic

    (Privredna banka Zagreb)

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In the past few years, there has been an increase in public concern about the medical wastes management on a global basis and a significant effort has been directed toward proper and safe management of hazardous medical wastes. However, if there is not a clear understanding of the risks, inadequate management practices are often implemented. In modern society, everything around us and everything we use becomes useless during some period of time and it becomes a waste. With developing a new technologies, specially in health care organizations, men created a lot of new synthetics materials that didn't exist in nature before and nature cannot deal with them itself. According them, every person and every institution is making some kind of waste. In present time, many medical care centers, make a lot of different waste during their business activity, and if it is not deal with it well, it can pollute environment and it is very dangerous for all members included in overall process. The objectives of this work was to analyze the medical waste management practices of health care centers, analyze the risk perception of medical staff and assess the risk for medical staff.

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  • Nedeljko Kovacic & Marina Kovacic, 2011. "Business Logistics and Dealingwith Medical Waste Materials," Business Logistics in Modern Management, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics, Croatia, vol. 11, pages 335-350.
  • Handle: RePEc:osi:bulimm:v:11:y:2011:p:335-350
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