It is well-documented that proper hand hygiene reduces nosocomial infections (Centers for Disease Control, 2000), while it is also well-documented that compliance by health care providers to proper hand hygiene remains less than satisfactory (Larson et al., 2001). It is the purpose of this brief communication to propose a theoretically driven approach that can be used by health educators in a v...

background: khat chewing is popular among yemenis. this study was performed to investigate the effects of khat chewing on periodontal tissue and oral hygiene status. methods: a total of 730 subjects (336 chewers and 394 non-chewers with a mean age of 31.5 ± 0.8 and 29.4 ± 0.9 years, respectively) were involved. clinical data on periodontal tissues, oral hygiene status, gingival bleeding, burnin...

The hand hygiene behavior of 400 middle school students (grades 1-3) in Seoul and Gyeonggi-Do was studied to determine how stages of change were affected by food safety education, focusing on hand hygiene and general food safety. Subjects were 51.3% male and 44.3% of study subjects were first graders of middle school. Approximately 40% of subjects were at the stage of action, 42.7% were at the ...

E. RAHIMI, H. MOMTAZ, A. SHARIFZADEH, A. BEHZADNIA, M. S. ASHTARI, S. ZANDI ESFAHANI, M. RIAHI & M. MOMENI 5 Departments of Food Hygiene; Department of Microbiology; 4 Undergraduate student of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Graduate student of Food Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture; Food Research Center, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord,...

Bacteriological quality of weaning food and drinking water given to 2 groups of children aged < or = years was evaluated by estimating bacterial cell count. One group consisted of those taken to market and the other of those left at home in the care of older siblings or house-helps. Bacterial counts (geometric mean) ranged from 5.02 +/- 1.82 to 8.70 +/- 1.0 log10 cfu per g or mL of food, and fr...

AbstractIn this study, we report on the results of a trial of an intervention to improve five food hygiene behaviors among mothers of young children in rural Nepal. This novel intervention targeted five behaviors; cleanliness of serving utensils, handwashing with soap before feeding, proper storage of cooked food, and thorough reheating and water treatment. Based on formative research and a cre...

The control of infection through hygiene has a long erratic history. Personal hygiene and handwashing was less appreciated in the past, since it was not known that invisible organisms could spread from apparently clean hands and surfaces. The role of a hygienic home environment received little attention until the 19th century. Since then, the modern tradition of hygiene has served us well, with...