Students’ Perceptions of Medical Waste Management in Serbia

Abstract

Medical waste and associated negative environmental and health effects are becoming an important concern that demands the collective action from all the spheres of the society. This is way medical waste and medical waste management are more and more present as a research topic in scientific sphere as well. This paper tries to examine attitudes and knowledge undergraduate students of University of Belgrade - Faculty of Organizational Science, enrolled in Environmental Quality System course have on medical waste, medical waste treatment, regulation and health care institution practices and compares their beliefs to the factuality of the issue as an insight to how the two differ. The aim of the research is discovering how much has to be done in order to converge the two in order to increase the awareness on the necessity to deal with an issue of a rising medical waste concerns.