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What Would It Mean for Health Care Organizations to Justly Manage Their Waste?

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Title
What Would It Mean for Health Care Organizations to Justly Manage Their Waste?
Published in
The AMA Journal of Ethic, October 2022
DOI 10.1001/amajethics.2022.934
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Authors

Genevieve S Silva, Cassandra Thiel

Abstract

Waste generated by health care includes harmful emissions and often disproportionately affects already vulnerable communities. Justly restructuring health care waste management involves better understanding key drivers of waste production, using sustainability as an ethical value to guide disposal decisions and practices, and reducing overall disposal quantity. Restructuring can be facilitated by making existing waste audit data transparent, incorporating waste accounting into social responsibility metrics used to evaluate health care organizational performance, and implementing policies that prioritize frontline workers' safety.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 1 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 13%
Student > Bachelor 1 13%
Other 1 13%
Student > Master 1 13%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 1 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 13%
Sports and Recreations 1 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 13%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 38%