Gomes, João Fernando PereiraDuarte, Elizabeth Fernandes de AlmeidaValença, Mário Filipe Lopes de Atalayão2013-03-122013-03-122012Valença, M.F.L.A. - Avaliação da gestão de resíduos hospitalares do Departamento de Imagiologia do Hospital Distrital de Santarém. Lisboa: ISA, 2012, 107 p.http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5339Mestrado em Engenharia do Ambiente - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaHospital wastes are potentially dangerous because they may contain pathogens agents (or microorganisms), and this calls for proper management of such wastes. Therefore, the objective of this dissertation is to conduct the assessment of hospital waste management in the District of Santarém Hospital (HDS) Imaging Department, identifying what the needs are and the corrective measures to implement in order to provide an improved hospital waste global management system of that department and, consequently, of the HDS.HDS was chosen because it´s a hospital with a significant size and a leading role in the district of Santarém, which is why it is particularly important to know if the hospital waste is being subject to proper management, according to current legislation. This study also addresses the general situation of hospital waste in Portugal, and the legislation that is regulating them, while also addressing, in general, the Hospital Waste Management in Portugal as well as the Treatment Processes and Hospital Waste Producers Entities. It´s also made an analysis of impacts on health and the environment resulting from the method of managing of this type of waste, as well as a description of the international situation of this issue.porhospital wastetreatment processeshospital waste managementenvironmental impactpublic healthmaster thesis