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ArticleWaste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA2026

Determinants of access to waste management services in healthcare facilities in 14 low- and middle-income countries.

Lucy K Tantum, Darcy M Anderson, Ute Pieper, Ryan Cronk

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Article in Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lucy K TantumThe Water Institute, Environmental Sciences and Engineering Department, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9887-6219
Darcy M AndersonThe Water Institute, Environmental Sciences and Engineering Department, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2129-7662
Ute PieperIndependent Consultant/Environmental Health Expert, Berlin, Germany.
Ryan CronkThe Water Institute, Environmental Sciences and Engineering Department, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0157-4447

Funding

Biostatstics for Research in Environmental HealthT32ES007018 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Stephanie Engel, Rebecca Fry · 1985 to 2026
$31.3M
NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Healthcare waste management is crucial in preventing infections and injuries. However, only an estimated 31% of healthcare facilities in least-developed countries had basic waste management in 2023. We employed multilevel modelling to assess healthcare facility-level and country-level predictors of 6 elements of safe waste management (e.g. having a functional incinerator, having bins for waste segregation) across 2002 healthcare facilities in 14 countries. Eight percent (

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Health FacilitiesMedical Waste DisposalWaste ManagementDeveloping CountriesHumansIncinerationMedical Waste Disposalbiomedical wastehealthcare facilityHealthcare wasteinfection controlmultilevel modelWASH

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PMID40977607
PMCPMC12874736

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