The development and institutionalisation of an integrated health care waste information system

Waste management generally in South Africa is poorly defined and practised, and the inadequate management of health care waste (HCW) has been recognised by the South African government as a significant environmental and public health risk. The literature revealed that an integrated health care waste information system (IHCWIS) serves as an important intervention to address the issue of poor health care waste management (HCWM). The overall key research question which this research asked was: "How does an IHCWIS develop and become institutionalised among health care waste generators?" The aim of the research was to gather empirical data to understand how the development and institutionalisation of an IHCWIS contributes to effective HCWM.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Information Systems

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Delcarme, Brian

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Roode, JD
• Brown, Irwin

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10359

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10359