title: Public health safety and environment in inadequate hospital and healthcare settings: a review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Public health safety and environmental management are concerns that pose challenges worldwide. This paper briefly assesses a selected impact of the environment on public health.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study used an assessment of environmental mechanism to analyse the underlying different pathways in which the health sector is affected in inadequate hospital and health care settings.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reviewed the limited available evidence of the association between the health sector and the environment, and the likely pathways through which the environment influences health. The paper also models the use of private health care as a function of costs and benefits relative to public care and no care.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The need to enhancing policies to improve the administration of health services, strengthening interventions on environment using international agreements, like Rio Conventions, including measures to control hospital-related infection, planning for human resources and infrastructure construction development have linkage to improve environment care and public health. The present study findings partly also demonstrate the influence of demand for health on the environment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The list of possible interventions includes enhancing policies to improve the administration of health services, strengthening Rio Conventions implementation on environmental concerns, control of environmental hazards and public health.
authors.affiliation: African Rural University, Kampala Contact Office, P. O. Box 16253, Kampala, Uganda. Electronic address: bagusha2000@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baguma
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D004777:Environment; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D017149:Private Sector / Q000191:economics; D011634:Public Health; D017150:Public Sector / Q000191:economics; D012449:Safety
keywords: Administration; Health services; Planning; Private health care; Rio Conventions