Chapter 8 Developing sustainable healthcare in waste management: a comprehensive approach
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Rishabha Malviya
Abstract
The healthcare sector, although essential for the population’s well-being, plays a substantial role in environmental deterioration due to the production of both hazardous and nonhazardous waste materials. The purpose of the analysis is to establish a complete framework for the management of hospital waste that is sustainable, integrating considerations of ecology, economics, and public health. The approach involves reducing waste at the source, employing effective segregation techniques, incorporating innovative treatment technology, and utilizing resources obtained from waste. To analyze the environmental, social, and economic implications of such an integrated model, life cycle evaluations and cost-benefit analyses were performed. The study shows that advanced waste treatment methods and careful use of resources may significantly reduce carbon emissions and environmental harm. The sustainable model provided fiscal responsibility by showing how savings and income can be generated through long-term investments in environmentally responsible hospital waste management. The chapter focuses on the critical function of healthcare organizations as catalysts for operational sustainability. Healthcare providers have a responsibility to protect the public’s health as well as to be efficient managers of the environment and good managers of tax money. By implementing this strategy, hospital waste management may become a catalyst for sustainability, contributing to worldwide efforts to reduce the healthcare sector’s environmental impact. The present study aims to investigate the primary determinants of hospital waste sustainability through the use of a comprehensive methodology. Additionally, it seeks to propose suggestions for enhancing the waste management system. The chapter contributed to the understanding of garbage management strategies by investigating the various manners in which policy, organizational, and personal dynamics affect system effectiveness.
Abstract
The healthcare sector, although essential for the population’s well-being, plays a substantial role in environmental deterioration due to the production of both hazardous and nonhazardous waste materials. The purpose of the analysis is to establish a complete framework for the management of hospital waste that is sustainable, integrating considerations of ecology, economics, and public health. The approach involves reducing waste at the source, employing effective segregation techniques, incorporating innovative treatment technology, and utilizing resources obtained from waste. To analyze the environmental, social, and economic implications of such an integrated model, life cycle evaluations and cost-benefit analyses were performed. The study shows that advanced waste treatment methods and careful use of resources may significantly reduce carbon emissions and environmental harm. The sustainable model provided fiscal responsibility by showing how savings and income can be generated through long-term investments in environmentally responsible hospital waste management. The chapter focuses on the critical function of healthcare organizations as catalysts for operational sustainability. Healthcare providers have a responsibility to protect the public’s health as well as to be efficient managers of the environment and good managers of tax money. By implementing this strategy, hospital waste management may become a catalyst for sustainability, contributing to worldwide efforts to reduce the healthcare sector’s environmental impact. The present study aims to investigate the primary determinants of hospital waste sustainability through the use of a comprehensive methodology. Additionally, it seeks to propose suggestions for enhancing the waste management system. The chapter contributed to the understanding of garbage management strategies by investigating the various manners in which policy, organizational, and personal dynamics affect system effectiveness.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Foreword VII
- Contents IX
- About the book XV
- Chapter 1 Developing sustainable hospital healthcare services 1
- Chapter 2 Promoting the adoption of robots in healthcare for sustainability 20
- Chapter 3 Design of healthcare sustainability: innovation and challenges 47
- Chapter 4 Healthcare sustainability with artificial intelligence: innovations, benefits, and challenges 80
- Chapter 5 Additive manufacturing for advancing healthcare sustainability 112
- Chapter 6 Revolutionizing healthcare sustainability through mHealth applications 146
- Chapter 7 Sustainable healthcare system using biomedical engineering 177
- Chapter 8 Developing sustainable healthcare in waste management: a comprehensive approach 213
- Chapter 9 Measurement of social sustainability in healthcare supply chain management 236
- Chapter 10 Importance of telemedicine on healthcare sustainability during pandemics 264
- Index 301
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Foreword VII
- Contents IX
- About the book XV
- Chapter 1 Developing sustainable hospital healthcare services 1
- Chapter 2 Promoting the adoption of robots in healthcare for sustainability 20
- Chapter 3 Design of healthcare sustainability: innovation and challenges 47
- Chapter 4 Healthcare sustainability with artificial intelligence: innovations, benefits, and challenges 80
- Chapter 5 Additive manufacturing for advancing healthcare sustainability 112
- Chapter 6 Revolutionizing healthcare sustainability through mHealth applications 146
- Chapter 7 Sustainable healthcare system using biomedical engineering 177
- Chapter 8 Developing sustainable healthcare in waste management: a comprehensive approach 213
- Chapter 9 Measurement of social sustainability in healthcare supply chain management 236
- Chapter 10 Importance of telemedicine on healthcare sustainability during pandemics 264
- Index 301
