Health care waste management: a neglected and growing public health problem worldwide

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Tropical medicine & international health

• Publication date

  2009-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02386.xPMID 19735368
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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