title: Staff's attitude regarding hospital waste management in the dental college hospitals of Bangalore city, India.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Growing urbanization has led to several changes in the healthcare sector. While on one hand, access to healthcare services are being provided to the community, thereby resulting in better health for all, improper management of biomedical waste emanating from these healthcare establishments has also given rise to many environmental and health problems (Acharya 2003). Although awareness in this issue has increased considerably over the last few years, sensitivity to this problem has been limited. Most hospitals are not actively involved in addressing this problem.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present study was conducted to assess the attitude of waste management among staff of dental hospitals in Bangalore city, by issuing a pre-tested structured questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  While 82.6% of attenders said that it is necessary to segregate waste into different categories at the point of origin, 61.5% of auxiliaries strongly disagreed that segregation of waste at source increases the risk of injury to waste handlers. As many as 33.5% of dentists strongly disagreed that segregation of waste at source increases the risk of injury to waste handlers and 53.6% agreed that segregation of waste at source does not increase the risk of injury to waste handlers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of this study suggest that the staff had good attitude towards waste management among.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Dentistry, J.S.S Dental College and Hospital, J.S.S University, Mysore, India.
authors.forename: Sushma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rudraswamy
authors.forename: Naganandini
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sampath
authors.forename: Nagabhushana
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Doggalli
keywords: Attitude; biomedical waste; dental hospitals; health care staff; health care waste; hospital waste management