Medical Waste Disposal and Resource Recycling Research-A Case Study of Regional Hospital in Kaohsiung

• Main Authors: Chia-Yu Chen, 陳家瑜
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68050238402111009567

碩士 === 立德管理學院 === 資源環境研究所 === 94 === The disposal of medical is waste always concerns the public’s safety and health. If any inappropriate action is taken in the process of classifying, collecting, storing, and disposing of medical waste, the medical staff may suffer occupational injury at least, or even pay their lives to the worst. Therefore, the classification and cleaning of the medical waste, as well as the compliance with the relevant policies and personal attitude towards the medical waste by the medical staff can generate a significant impact on the medical environmental safety. This study is intended to explore the awareness, attitude and compliance of the employees of a regional hospital towards the disposal of medical waste. The questionnaire is conducted in terms of the following segments: (1) Acceptance of medical waste disposal programs; (2) Awareness of the existing waste classification and cleaning; (3) Awareness of resource recycling and medical waste; (4) How the hospital’s policies over waste were followed and excuded. After experts modified the questionnaire, the pretest of the questionnaire was performed in a Kaohsiung regional hospital in April 2006. A total of 101 questionnaires were collected in this hospital. After that, the factor analysis, key component analysis and product-moment correlation analysis were conducted. Meanwhile, the conclusions learned from this study were suggested to the management departments and supervising units for the use of future modifications and improvements. This study concluded that women’s impact is larger than men’s, in terms of the reception of disposal of medical waste and cooperative attitude. Women are also more aggressive in gaining knowledge of medical waste and resource recycling, and have better common sense in those matters. In terms of cooperative and valuing attitudes, older people showedless care than the younger ones. Unmarried and married also showed a significant difference in the willingness to comply with the hospital’s policy. The analyzed results suggest that there is a close correlation between the individual’s common sense toward the medical waste and the achievement of resource recycling.