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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Knowledge, attitude and practice of health-care waste management and associated health risks in the two teaching and referral hospitals in Kenya
Journal of Community Health, Volume 37, No. 6, Year 2012
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Hazardous health-care waste poses a great danger to public health and the environment if it is not properly managed. There is need for health-care workers involved in its management to understand the integral link between human health and environmental health. This study was done to identify gaps in knowledge, attitude and practice among the healthcare workers involved in its management hence endangering public health and polluting the environment. A self administered questionnaire was used in both Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret to clinicians, nurses, laboratory technologists and hospital attendants to identify the gaps with a focus on their knowledge, attitude and practice. It was found that health and safety in healthcare waste management, was not included in most of the curricula for training the three healthcare professionals. Most of them acquired this through on-job training from seminars and informally through organized talks at workplaces. The hospital attendants had also an opportunity to acquire the knowledge through organized training at work places. The training improved the workers' compliance to hepatitis B vaccinations and use of personal protective equipment when handling health-care waste. There was also reduction on injuries from health-care waste. This study therefore concludes that it is necessary for healthcare workers training curricula to include health and safety issues while managing hazardous health-care waste as well as establishes the need for healthcare institutions to conduct continuing education on health and safety in the management of health-care waste. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.
Authors & Co-Authors
Njagi, Nkonge A.
Kenya, Eldoret
Moi University
Mayabi Oloo, A.
Kenya, Nairobi
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Kithinji, Jacob P.
Kenya, Nairobi
University of Nairobi
Magambo Kithinji, J.
Kenya, Nairobi
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Statistics
Citations: 35
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s10900-012-9580-x
ISSN:
00945145
Research Areas
Environmental
Health System And Policy
Infectious Diseases
Violence And Injury
Study Locations
Kenya