Hand hygiene has achieved the reputation of being a convenient means of preventing communicable diseases. Although causal links between hand hygiene and rates of infectious disease have also been established earlier, studies focusing on hand hygiene among university-going students are not adequate in number. This study evaluated handwashing knowledge, practice, and other related factors among t...

I Paradowska-Stankiewicz1, M P Czarkowski1, T Derrough2, P Stefanoff ([email protected])3,4 1. National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland 2. European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 3. Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway 4. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European C...

1Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 2Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA 3Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, New Haven, CT, USA 44Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA ⇤Direct correspondence to katherine.atk...

1 Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Department of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Unite...

OBJECTIVES The study aims are twofold. First, to investigate the suitability of hand hygiene as an indicator of accreditation outcomes and, second, to test the hypothesis that hospitals with better accreditation outcomes achieve higher hand hygiene compliance rates. DESIGN A retrospective, longitudinal, multisite comparative survey. SETTING Acute public hospitals in New South Wales, Austral...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of Body Mass Index (BMI) on oral hygiene practices of adolescents in Bhopal City, India. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Arts College, Bhopal, from February to March 2014. METHODOLOGY Aconvenience sample of 17 - 23 years college-going adolescents from Arts College, Bhopal city was selected for the study. Self-reported question...

1 Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. 2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. 3 Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 4 Population and Family Health Science, Bloomberg Sch...

Early detection of childhood caries is important to childrens' overall health. Untreated childhood caries can lead to pain, as in abscesses from prolonged neglect; altered dietary intake; and delays in the development of the permanent teeth if the primary teeth are prematurely lost. In the summer of 2000, funds were provided to various oral health care provider organizations by the Illinois Dep...

Research on hygiene has been relatively limited in the current era of rigorous observational studies and clinical trials. We set out to investigate the perception and practices of genital hygiene among fishermen working on the beaches along Lake Victoria, targeted for a topical male microbicide hygiene intervention. We conducted 12 focus group discussions involving fishermen (n = 130), recordin...