What is it about?
Managing healthcare waste has remain a significant challenge that poses health and environmental hazards in many developing countries of which Ghana is no exception. Although several studies on waste management in developing countries have been conducted, studies on performance measurement of waste management services are limited. Undeniably, there are challenges in public hospitals with regards to waste management processes more especially, segregation, storage, treatment and disposal. In the case of Ghana, though the policy framework is complete and serves as a standard operating procedure for healthcare waste management, there are convincing evidence that point to poor practices in waste management in public hospitals, more especially handling of medical waste. While this study supports recommendations from many other studies on training and knowledge improvement, attitudes and human resource management to improve hospital waste management, this present study adds to the existing body of knowledge more critical performance dimensions that should be considered to improve waste management services
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Why is it important?
presents a novel investigation to improve healthcare waste management through an a comprehensive analysis of performance scales with PLS-SEM
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It was a great pleasure writing on healthcare waste management from a facilities management perspective, given that it has exposed me to great literature in the healthcare waste management
DANIEL AMOS
KUMASI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
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This page is a summary of: Modelling the performance of waste management services in Ghana’s public hospitals, Facilities, April 2020, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/f-08-2019-0086.
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