BACKGROUND Interventions to increase hand washing in schools have been advocated as a means to reduce the transmission of pandemic influenza and other infections. However, the feasibility and acceptability of effective school-based hygiene interventions is not clear. METHODS A pilot study in four primary schools in East London was conducted to establish the current need for enhanced hand hygi...

AIMS To assess oral hygiene knowledge, perceptions and practices, and assess oral hygiene status among school settings in rural Chennai, India. METHODS A pilot cross sectional study was done during August-September, 2013 in a rural school in Chennai, South India. A convenient sample of 100 secondary (6-8 standards) and higher secondary (9-10 standards) school students was taken. A modified ve...

1 Health Systems Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana and University of Ghana School of Public Health, Legon, Ghana, 3 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 5...

New scientific and management knowledge in both public and private sectors is improving economic incentives for food safety. New threats, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, popularly known as “mad cow disease”) are altering global markets. Market incentives for food safety are relatively weak, however, because food safety is a credence good. Even after food has been consumed, the la...

With the booming street food industry in the developing world there is an urgent need to ensure food vendors adhere to hygienic practices to protect public health. This study assessed the adherence to food hygiene practices by food vendors in educational institutions in Konongo, Ghana. Structured questionnaires, extensive observation and interviews were used for the study involving 60 food vend...

1. The Food Safety/Public Health Paradigm 2. Economics of Veterinary Public Health 3. Origins of disease 3.1. Domestication and Distribution of Animals 3.2. Early Strategies for Disease Prevention 3.3. Animals as Food Sources 3.4. Control of Live Animals 4. The development of hygiene inspection 4.1. Contamination of Foods of Animal Origin 4.2. Methods to Guarantee Hygiene in Foods of Animal Ori...

1. The Food Safety/Public Health Paradigm 2. Economics of Veterinary Public Health 3. Origins of disease 3.1. Domestication and Distribution of Animals 3.2. Early Strategies for Disease Prevention 3.3. Animals as Food Sources 3.4. Control of Live Animals 4. The development of hygiene inspection 4.1. Contamination of Foods of Animal Origin 4.2. Methods to Guarantee Hygiene in Foods of Animal Ori...

*Correspondence to: Dr M. P. Coleman, Cancer and Public Health Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel: +44-20-7927-2478; Fax: +44-20-7436-4230; E-mail: [email protected] †Members of the EUROCARE Working Group are listed in the Acknowledgements. Cancer and Public Health Unit, Departmen...

Introduction / objectives The importance of hand disinfection has been known since Semmelweis, however, fundamental problems remain existent with hand hygiene. Our team of young engineers created a universal method to teach and verify proper hand disinfection. We target both the health care system and the general public, to educate and control through visualizing, demonstrating and measuring. M...