TY - BOOK AU - Cruz, Charlie P. TI - Healthcare waste management of the level 1 government hospitals in Region I U1 - DIS 362.11 C88h 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - La Union PB - [s.n.], KW - Hospitals N1 - Bibliography: pages 113-117 N2 - This research evaluated the current practices of level 1 government in Region 1 on healthcare waste management (HCWM). Specifically, it looked into the: hospitals' healthcare facility along services, bed capacity, occupancy, and number of outpatients, and the hospital staff's along HCWM training requirements; level of awareness of HCWM and number of medical staff; and status of the hospitals healthcare waste management practices on generation, segregation and handling, storage containers, storage area, collection and on-site transport, off-site transport, treatment, final disposal, sanitation and wastewater, regulations and policy and budget. SWOT analysis results contributed to the development of a validated manual on healthcare waste management ER -