Framework for PESTEL dimensions of sustainable healthcare waste management: Learnings from COVID-19 outbreak.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has put the world economy at an unprecedented position and protecting society from the infection is at the core of all measures. As the COVID-19 virus stays longer on plastic and stainless steel materials, hence the healthcare wastes (HCW), coming out of the treatment of COVID-19 infected patients can be one of the potential route for transmission of infection. Therefore, the present study analyses the dimensions of sustainable HCWM by using a multi-method approach: PESTEL (political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal) analysis, TISM (total interpretive structural modeling) and fuzzy- MICMAC (cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification) analysis. The opted research framework yields 17 PESTEL dimensions of sustainable HCWM during

SUBMITTER: Thakur V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7744017 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature