Brent, ACRogers, DECRamabitsa-Siimane, TSMRohwer, Mark B2007-08-212007-08-212006-09Brent, AC et al. 2006. Application of AHP for the development of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in developing countries: Case studies Lesotho and South Africa. Biennial Conference - "Bridging the Gap" - Institute of Waste Management SA, September 2006, pp 100-620-37156-0http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1141Biennial Conference - Institute of Waste Management SAThis paper focuses on the establishment of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in the context of sustainable development in the developing country situations. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), a known multi-criteria decision-analysis approach, has been incorporated with international Life Cycle Management best practice to subsequently develop a decision support tool (WasteOpt) to optimise developing country rural Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) systems to address a main objective of HCWM systems, that is to minimize infection of patients and workers, and the public within the system. The tool was applied to two case studies: the sub-Saharan African countries of Lesotho and South Africa. Quantitative weightings from the AHP are used to identify alternative systems that have similar outcomes in meeting the systems objective, but may have different cost structures and infection risks. The two case studies illustrate how the WasteOpt tool can be used (with strengths and weaknesses) in waste management decision supportenRural regionsWaste managementHealth careSustainable developmentAnalytical hierarchy processMulti-criteria decision-analysisLife cycle managementLesothoSouth AfricaBiennial Conference 2006Conference PresentationBrent, A., Rogers, D., Ramabitsa-Siimane, T., & Rohwer, M. B. (2006). Application of AHP for the development of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in developing countries: Case studies Lesotho and South Africa. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1141Brent, AC, DEC Rogers, TSM Ramabitsa-Siimane, and Mark B Rohwer. "Application of AHP for the development of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in developing countries: Case studies Lesotho and South Africa." (2006): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1141Brent A, Rogers D, Ramabitsa-Siimane T, Rohwer MB, Application of AHP for the development of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in developing countries: Case studies Lesotho and South Africa; 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1141 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Brent, AC AU - Rogers, DEC AU - Ramabitsa-Siimane, TSM AU - Rohwer, Mark B AB - This paper focuses on the establishment of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in the context of sustainable development in the developing country situations. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), a known multi-criteria decision-analysis approach, has been incorporated with international Life Cycle Management best practice to subsequently develop a decision support tool (WasteOpt) to optimise developing country rural Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) systems to address a main objective of HCWM systems, that is to minimize infection of patients and workers, and the public within the system. The tool was applied to two case studies: the sub-Saharan African countries of Lesotho and South Africa. Quantitative weightings from the AHP are used to identify alternative systems that have similar outcomes in meeting the systems objective, but may have different cost structures and infection risks. The two case studies illustrate how the WasteOpt tool can be used (with strengths and weaknesses) in waste management decision support DA - 2006-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Rural regions KW - Waste management KW - Health care KW - Sustainable development KW - Analytical hierarchy process KW - Multi-criteria decision-analysis KW - Life cycle management KW - Lesotho KW - South Africa KW - Biennial Conference 2006 LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2006 SM - 0-620-37156-0 T1 - Application of AHP for the development of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in developing countries: Case studies Lesotho and South Africa TI - Application of AHP for the development of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in developing countries: Case studies Lesotho and South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1141 ER -