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Healthcare waste management practice and associated factors among health workers of public health centers in Adama City, Southern central Ethiopia, 2024: a cross-sectional study.
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- Towards Sustainable Healthcare Risk Waste Management in South Africa: A Systematic Review of Treatment Practices and Policy Gaps.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Pooled it
- Infectious Healthcare Waste Management Practices and Associated Factors Among Waste Handlers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Aggregation operators based on interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy linguistic sets for medical waste disposal planning.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
Healthcare wastes are among the most hazardous wastes worldwide. If not properly managed, healthcare waste can have severe effects on human health and the environment. Safe healthcare waste management practices by health workers are crucial and cost-effective measures to reduce healthcare-associated infections. There are, however, few studies on the extent of healthcare waste management practices among healthcare personnel in developing countries like Ethiopia. This study aims to assess the extent of healthcare waste management practices and associated factors among health workers in public health facilities in Adama City, 2024. A facility-based cross-sectional study design was conducted in the public health Centers of Adama city. A total of 221 health care workers were included in the study from November 4 to December 9, 2024. Data were collected with a self-administered questionnaire. The collected data were checked for completeness, edited, coded, and entered into Epi Info version 7.2.5 & exported to SPSS version 25.0 for analysis. Descriptive statistics were used in the form of text and a table. Binary logistic regression was used to identify associated factors of outcome variables at p-value < 0.05 and 95% confidence interval. Of the total, 102 (46.2%) respondents were practicing proper practice of waste management. Health workers who were reading healthcare waste management manuals (AOR = 3.661,95%CI (1.670, 8.024) and facilities with adequate personnel protective equipment practicing proper healthcare (AOR = 2.236, 95% CI (1.051, 4.56), Having good knowledge of healthcare waste management (AOR = 3.293, 95% CI (1.226, 8.845) and proper attitude toward health care waste managment (AOR = 3.678, 95% CI (1.328, 10.189) were factors associated to healthcare waste management practice. The overall proper practice of healthcare waste management was low compared to different findings. Reading of healthcare waste management manual, availability of adequate personal protective equipment, knowledge level and attitude of health workers were significantly associated with healthcare waste management practice. Thus, stakeholders must work on awareness creation and provide manuals and personal protective equipment. regular monitoring and supervision are needed.
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