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Effective management of health care waste in medical institutions is a crucial factor for disease transmission risks, environmental pollution and, due to high utlisation costs of health care waste comparing to general waste, also economic sustainability of medical institutions. Possibilities to forecast amount of generated waste is needed for planning of waste management budgets and optimization of waste management practices. The objective of the research is to develop a health care waste generation rates prediction model for Kazakhstan hospitals. The current research describes the concept of the research and performs comparative analysis of the indicators describing health care waste management in medical institutions.

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