Risco ambiental e o gerenciamento de resíduos nos espaços de um serviço de saúde no Canadá: um estudo de caso.
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Abstract
The environmental impacts caused by solid urban waste represent one of the main questions for public administrators, due to their risks for health and the environment. Medical waste stands out in this context, due to the fact that, although representing about 2% of the total quantity of urban waste, this kind of waste offers risks due to the presence of biological, chemical and/or radioactive agents. As opposed to what happens in developed countries, in Brazil, medical waste is still not managed in accordance with the recommendations found in more developed situations with respect to handling, treatment and final destination. This research aimed to get to know and describe the management structure of the medical waste produced at McMaster University Medical Centre -MUMC -Canada, with a view to the implementation of new strategies in the Brazilian reality when making decisions in environmental risk evaluation and management processes. Our premise was based on the existing similarities between Canada and Brazil with respect to how medical waste is handled and discarded, in spite of the higher level of legal organization and technical-operational and political conditions in Canada. This descriptive and exploratory case study is based on semistructured interviews, systemized observation and a check-list. Research subjects were 10 key informants, working at 10 different hospital areas selected for the study, in accordance with the Canadian medical waste classification. Data analysis was based on Bardin (1972), covering the three basic steps in analyzing the contents of the interviews, supported by the data obtained through observations and the check-list. Results displayed an organized management situation in the mapped risk areas, although waste creators' behavior did not correspond totally to the Canadian legal demands and recommendations, which corroborates our initial premise. The obtained results also allowed us to propose a protocol, to be used in Brazil as an auxiliary strategy for managing medical waste. This is a useful tool for managers and decision makers in this area, in spite of socioeconomic and cultural differences in relation to Canada, with the possibility of contributing to the environmental risk evaluation and management process and of help in the construction of an adequate ecological environment and a better quality of life.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it