Circular Strategies for Hospitals
Reducing medical waste is a worldwide challenge that calls for smarter solutions that can make healthcare more sustainable.
This course helps hospital staff, management, users and buyers of medical products and decision-makers make the transition to a circular economy and therefore contribute to reducing waste streams and costs.
This course uses an interdisciplinary approach to create sustainable solutions in hospitals. It includes business cases with visual examples of circular economy strategies presented by experts from the field. These strategies are also a tool to help relieve the supply chain as resources are under increasing pressure.
After taking this course you will master the concept of the circular economy from a hospital perspective. You will learn to apply circular strategies and how to set-up a green team to integrate circular processes in your organization. Finally, you will learn how to make recommendations for reducing waste streams.
This course is part of the program Circular Strategies for Sustainable Healthcare developed by TU Delft’s MedTech experts in close collaboration with industry representatives and renowned institutes. These courses provide not only academic insights but also practical tools and examples which can be implemented in any healthcare organization, and can help you propose and develop your own circular solutions and programs.
What you'll learn
- Define the basics of circular economy from a hospital perspective
- Translate the circular approaches of the Butterfly Diagram to a hospital or healthcare environment
- Recognize the purpose of a green team and outline its requirements
- Define urban mining and identify urban mining strategies in the hospital
- Analyze waste streams in the hospital and identify how these can be reduced or eliminated
- Formulate a set of recommendations to decrease hospital waste
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Length | 7 weeks |
Effort | 7 weeks, 6–8 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $149 |
From | Delft University of Technology via edX |
Instructors | Bart Van Straten, Tim Horeman |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Science |
Tags | Biology & Life Sciences |
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Rating | Not enough ratings |
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Length | 7 weeks |
Effort | 7 weeks, 6–8 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $149 |
From | Delft University of Technology via edX |
Instructors | Bart Van Straten, Tim Horeman |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Science |
Tags | Biology & Life Sciences |
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