A Study of Risk Relationship of Medical Waste Disposal among Hospital Employees

• Main Authors: Cheng-Jui Shih, 施政睿
• Other Authors: Bor-Wen Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68836032153707967003

碩士 === 雲林科技大學 === 全球運籌管理研究所碩士班 === 98 === Since National Health Insurance has established,the amount of medical services have continued to rise.If medical waste disposal is improper, it will cause many disease to injure hospital employees.So this study will realize the Hospital Employees’ risk perception to reduce the injury on the job. This study used questionnaires to investigate the relationship of risk perception of medical waste , risk characteristics of medical waste and cognition of medical waste disposal. The scope of this study were regional hospitals in Yunlin . Then this study used Structural Equation Modeling(SEM) to analyze the questionnaires and construct the model of risk relationship to provide to hospital manager. The result showed that the risk characteristics of infectious medical waste, chemical risk characteristics of medical waste and medical waste risk perception have a positive pathway and risk perception of medical waste and cognition of medical waste disposal also have a positive pathway. Therefore we could know medical waste risk perceptions will be affected by risk characteristics and cognition of medical waste disposal will be influenced by medical waste risk perceptions.