Risk Management for Whole-Process Safe Disposal of Medical Waste: Progress and Challenges

• DOI: 10.2147/rmhp.s464268
• Publication Date: 2024-06-06T09:50:10Z
• Authors: Ting Yang; Yanan Du; Mingzhen Sun; Jingjing Meng; Yiyi Li
• Keywords: medical waste; Biomedical waste

Abstract: Over the past decade, global outbreaks of SARS, influenza A (H1N1), COVID-19, and other major infectious diseases have exposed insufficient capacity for emergency disposal medical waste in numerous countries regions. Particularly during epidemics diseases, exhibits new characteristics such as accelerated growth rate, heightened risk level, more stringent requirements. Consequently, there is an urgent need advanced theoretical approaches that can perceive, predict, evaluate, control risks associated with safe throughout entire process a timely, accurate, efficient, comprehensive manner. This article provides systematic review relevant research on collection, storage, transportation, its entirety to illustrate current state practices. Building upon this foundation leveraging emerging information technologies like Internet Things (IoT), cloud computing, big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), we deeply contemplate future directions aim minimize across all stages while offering valuable references decision support further advance Keywords: waste, disposal, progress challenges