The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, founded in 1929 to study all aspects of public health, set up an occupational health unit in 1956 funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. With financial aid from the Trades Union Congress it expanded into an institute with an information and advisory service. Employers and trade unions sought advice on health problems which led to research proje...

Antibiotic resistance within the community setting is an emerging public-health concern. Infection with antibiotic-resistant organisms in the community among people lacking traditional risk factors has been reported. In addition, prevalence studies have identified individuals carrying antibiotic-resistant organisms in the absence of known risk factors. These studies strongly suggest the presenc...

IARC, Lyon, France; Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, Universita’ di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Institute of Hygiene, Public Health, Health Services and Management, Bucharest, Romania; Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia; Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; National Institute of Env...

washing facilities were located near the lamb-petting area, and considerable effort was required to locate a handwashing basin in the wildlife center complex. Several alcohol hand sanitizers were located on site, but the microbicidal effects on Cryptosporidium spp. are insuffi cient to prevent infection, especially after direct contact with livestock (4,5). After publication of the outbreak rep...

SANITATION AND HYGIENE TO COMBAT NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES INITIAL LESSONS FROM PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION Access to water, sanitation and hygiene is fundamental for health. It plays a critical role the prevention and management of diseases including neglected tropical diseases which affect over 1 billion people among the poorest communities. WASH is one of five public health interventions to con...

* To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Oral cancer is the sixth most common malignancy worldwide and ranked third of all cancers in india.. 90% of these lesions are oral squamous cell carcinomas 1 .Major risk factors for oral cancers in are use of tobacco and alcohol, which account for 75 to 80% of all oral cancersalthough tobacco is a well-recognized risk factor for oscc, the public...

BACKGROUND During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic the Danish National board of Health carried out massive public hygiene campaigns to limit spread of disease. We aimed to investigate whether this resulted in lower incidences of communicable diseases in the paediatric population. METHODS The study compared annual hospitalization rates for childhood infections from 2005 to 2011. RESULTS Admission rate...

IARC, Lyon, France; Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, Universita’ di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Institute of Hygiene, Public Health, Health Services and Management, Bucharest, Romania; Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia; Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; National Institute of Env...

Background The issue of menstrual hygiene is inadequately acknowledged in our nation. The use of sanitary pads and washing the genital area are essential practices for good menstrual hygiene. Poor menstrual hygiene may lead to itching or rashes in the perineal region, bad odor, and sometimes, major complications such as pelvic inflammatory disease and toxic shock syndrome. Therefore, the object...

Infectious Disease Research Division, Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Arata-cho 2-1-29, Hyogo-ku, Kobe 652-0032, Himeji City Institute of Environment and Health, Sakata-machi 3, Himeji 670-0931, Division of Virology and Bacteriology, Nara Prefectural Institute for Hygiene and Environment, Ohmori-cho 57-6, Nara 630-8131 and Department of Microbiology, Oka...