Perspectives of policy-makers and stakeholders about health care waste management in community-based care in South Africa: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In South Africa, a new primary health care (PHC) re-engineering initiative aims to scale up the provision of community-based care (CBC). A central element in this initiative is the use of outreach teams comprising nurses and community health workers to provide care to the largely poor and marginalised communities across the country. The provision of care will inevitably lead to an increase in the amount of health care waste (HCW) generated in homes and suggests the need to pay more attention to the HCW that emanates from homes where there is care of a patient. CBC in South Africa is guided by the home-based care policy. However, this policy does not deal with issues about how HCW should be managed in CBC. This study sought to explore health care waste management (HCWM) i

SUBMITTER: Hangulu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5395807 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature