Download Report: Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda: A Comprehensive Environmental Health Agenda for Hospitals and Health Systems Around the World (pdf)
Tools and Resources
Sustainable Waste Management
- Interim Report of Health Care Waste Management System in Bir Hospital, Kathmandu (pdf)
- Human Rights Council Report of the Special Rapporteur (pdf)
- HCWH Submission on Medical Waste and Human Rights (pdf) by Ruth Stringer
- Appendix of the Human Rights Report: Country Case Studies and Snapshots (pdf)
- Read Press Release from the Human Rights Commission
- Best Practices in Health Care Waste Management: Examples from Four Philippine Hospitals (pdf)
- Effects of Vermicomposting on Microbiological Flora of Infected Biomedical Waste (pdf)
- Eleven Recommendations for Improving Health Care Waste Management (pdf)
- For Proper Disposal: A Global Inventory of Alternative Medical Waste Treatment Technologies (pdf)
- Ground Work: Community Action to Reduce the Harm Caused by Health Care Waste and Incineration in South Africa (pdf)
- Hospital Waste, Time to Act:
Factsheets on 14 Priority Areas in India (pdf) - Non-Incineration Medical Waste Treatment Technologies (2004 version, pdf)
- Promoting Best Practices to Reduce Health Care Waste and Avoid Dioxin and Mercury Releases (pdf)
- Toxics Link Training Manual Understanding and Simplifying Bio-Medical Waste Management (pdf)
- WHO: Expanded Costing Analysis Tools (ECAT)
for Health Care Waste Management - WHO: Safe Management of Wastes from Healthcare Activities
Incineration Impacts
- Best Environmental Practices and Alternative Technologies for Medical Waste Management (pdf)
Discusses impacts of medical waste incineration and alternatives for the developing world - British Society for Ecological Medicine Report: Health Effects of Waste Incinerators (pdf)
- Contamination of Chicken Eggs near Indian Hospital by Dioxins, PCBs and Hexachlorobenzene (pdf)
- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) website
- Greenpeace Report: Incineration and Human Health: State of Knowledge of the Impacts of Waste Incinerators on Human Health (pdf)
- WHO: Assessment of Small-Scale Incinerators for Health Care Waste (pdf)
Policies
- ICN Position Statement: Medical Waste, Role of Nurses and Nursing (pdf)
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) website
- WHO: Core Principles for Achieving Safe and Sustainable Management of Health-Care Waste (pdf)
- WHO: Safe Health-Care Waste Management Policy Paper (pdf)
Worker Safety
- Preventing Needlestick Injuries among Healthcare Workers: A WHO-ICN Collaboration (pdf)
- WHO: Aide-Memoire for a Strategy to Protect Health Workers from Infection with Bloodborne Viruses (pdf)
Projects and Case Studies
- GEF/UNDP Project: Demonstrating and Promoting Best Techniques and Practices for Reducing Healthcare Waste to Avoid Environmental Releases of Dioxins and Mercury (pdf)
- UN/GEF Global Healthcare Waste Project website
- Hubli-Dharwad Sustainable Healthcare Waste Management Project (pdf)
- Preventing Needlestick Injuries among Healthcare Workers: A WHO-ICN Collaboration (pdf)
- Tanzania's project to replace an incinerator with a safer, non-burn waste treatment system (pdf)
- Testing a Waste Treament Autoclave at a Hospital in Tanzania: A Technical Brief (pdf)
- Waste Management and Disposal During the Philippine Follow-Up Measles Campaign 2004: executive summary; full report (pdf)
