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The understanding of solid waste from healthcare services in academic education: a contribution to environmental education

This article shows how the problematic of solid waste from healthcare services is being approached in undergraduate courses in the healthcare field. The data was obtained from coordinators, professors and students of Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Obstetrics, and Medicine courses offered by a public university in the south of Brazil. It takes into account the need for an educational reform that should include in the pedagogical process a grasp of integrality, articulation, dialogue and problematization, so as to prepare the future professionals for instrumentalizing and facing the issue of solid waste from healthcare services with responsibility and commitment.

educational process; higher education; solid waste; health services; environmental education; social commitment


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