hospital waste material generation is an undesired process in a hospital service rendering system. infectious wastes due to their hazardous nature which containing pathogenic micro organisms could harm and contaminate human environment in comparison to other waste materials. for this reason, it is necessary to adopt relevant alternatives and mechanisms to curb and disinfect them. the research p...

the main objective of this investigation was to achieve a clear pattern of solid waste collection and disposal in selected hospital and health care establishments in certain cities of tehran province. this study was done in more than 82 percent of all hospitals with 3017 beds during the year 1996. solid waste produced per bed was evaluated to be 2.87 kg per day which was 8670 kg per day, for al...

introduction : risk management nowadays is one of the main concerns of all professions in order to protect themselves as well as keeping a competitive edge in the market. analyzing risks and their consequences (fmea) is one of the techniques of risk assessment which has been used in this research to define and assess risks and prevention measures for the risk. methods : in this descriptive, cro...

Gaps in communication between medical officers and poor planning are associated with prescribing errors and may result in patient harm. This study describes medication communication on post-take ward rounds (PTWR). Over 6 weeks on 24 PTWR, 130 patients, prescribed 1244 medications, were observed. Of these, 811 (65%) medications were discussed, with 249 discussions (relating to 126 medications) ...

This paper discusses a general architecture where diierent schemes for multi robot task achievement can be integrated called \M+ Cooperative task achieve-ment". The main originality comes from its ability to allow the robots to detect-in distributed and cooperative manner-resource connict situation as well as sub-optimalities. Diierent actions are performed by the robots such as actions reorder...

introduction:childhood obesity is a major public health crisis nationally and internationally. the prevalence of  childhood obesity has increased over few years. it is caused by imbalance between calorie intake and calories utilized. one or more factors (genetic, behavioral, and environmental) cause obesity in children. physical, psychological, and social health problems are caused due to child...

This study aimed to get to know the social representations about support for breastfeeding in a group of breastfeeding women, as well as to identify the actions in their social environment these women perceive as supportive in their breastfeeding processes. Data were collected through a qualitative approach, using recorded semistructured interviews, organized in accordance with the Collective S...