Hospital Waste Management Practices: Explanation from Medical Personnel
Today, the healthcare industry has become more important with the increasing number of hospitals due to the rise of patients. This signifies the world is facing more critical issues towards hospital waste due to its impact on the environment. The increase of waste generation from the hospital is not...
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| description | Today, the healthcare industry has become more important with the increasing number of hospitals due to the rise of patients. This signifies the world is facing more critical issues towards hospital waste due to its impact on the environment. The increase of waste generation from the hospital is not only to the environment but to an organisation such as cost of disposal. Current research fails to provide a manager behaviour view on the solution to reduce waste from their organization. Thus, this study explores the current hospital waste practices at the hospital, to examine depth understanding of recycling factor behaviour among medical personnel and the impacts from recycling hospital waste. This study used the semi-structured interview with hospital managers to address The result shows, respondents are willing to recycle hospital waste with factors such as government support, top management involvement through providing training, awareness, knowledge, facilities and incentives. This study will contribute to both bodies of knowledge and practice among hospital managers. |
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| spelling | ump-325622021-12-30T07:24:35Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/32562/ Hospital Waste Management Practices: Explanation from Medical Personnel Suriati, Deraman Lee, Khai Loon Puteri Fadzline, Muhamad Tamyez H Social Sciences (General) Today, the healthcare industry has become more important with the increasing number of hospitals due to the rise of patients. This signifies the world is facing more critical issues towards hospital waste due to its impact on the environment. The increase of waste generation from the hospital is not only to the environment but to an organisation such as cost of disposal. Current research fails to provide a manager behaviour view on the solution to reduce waste from their organization. Thus, this study explores the current hospital waste practices at the hospital, to examine depth understanding of recycling factor behaviour among medical personnel and the impacts from recycling hospital waste. This study used the semi-structured interview with hospital managers to address The result shows, respondents are willing to recycle hospital waste with factors such as government support, top management involvement through providing training, awareness, knowledge, facilities and incentives. This study will contribute to both bodies of knowledge and practice among hospital managers. Penerbit Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2021 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/32562/7/Hospital%20Waste%20Management%20Practices.pdf Suriati, Deraman and Lee, Khai Loon and Puteri Fadzline, Muhamad Tamyez (2021) Hospital Waste Management Practices: Explanation from Medical Personnel. International Journal of Industrial Management (IJIM), 11 (1). pp. 257-261. ISSN 2289-9286 (Print); 0127-564x (Online). (Published) https://doi.org/10.15282/ijim.11.1.2021.6419 https://doi.org/10.15282/ijim.11.1.2021.6419 |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) Suriati, Deraman Lee, Khai Loon Puteri Fadzline, Muhamad Tamyez Hospital Waste Management Practices: Explanation from Medical Personnel |
| title | Hospital Waste Management Practices: Explanation from Medical Personnel |
| title_full | Hospital Waste Management Practices: Explanation from Medical Personnel |
| title_fullStr | Hospital Waste Management Practices: Explanation from Medical Personnel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hospital Waste Management Practices: Explanation from Medical Personnel |
| title_short | Hospital Waste Management Practices: Explanation from Medical Personnel |
| title_sort | hospital waste management practices: explanation from medical personnel |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) |
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