BACKGROUND Providing alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) at the point of care is a key success factor in enabling health care providers to achieve optimal hand hygiene practices. There are few tools available for health care organizations to assess the number of points of care, estimate the number of hand hygiene indications at each point of care, and estimate the anticipated volume of ABHR required ...

There is a growing recognition of the involvement of the home in several public health and hygiene issues and of the need to promote effective hygiene practices for the home. Hygiene practice in the home includes the categories of personal hygiene, food hygiene, environmental or surface hygiene, and home health care. This article reviews some of the hygiene risks in the home, including the role...

Non-typhoidal Salmonella represents an important human and animal pathogen world-wide. Most human salmonellosis cases are foodborne, but each year infections are also acquired through direct or indirect animal contact in homes, veterinary clinics, zoological gardens, farm environments or other public, professional or private settings. Clinically affected animals may exhibit a higher prevalence ...

*Chief, Hearing Program, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Executive Plaza South, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Suite 400B, Rockville, Maryland 20892; formerly, Hearing Conservation Consultant, Hearing Conservation, Bio-Acoustics Division, U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency †Program Manager, Hearing Conservation, ...

A "Centrifichem" centrifugal analyser was found using a double fluorescence/bacterial tracer method to be a source of airborne and surface contamination in the laboratory. The airborne contamination was controlled by a modification incorporating a filter. Ubiquitous surface contamination generally accompanied the processing of simulated patients' sera. Double tracer samples could be used in lab...

Rebecca M. Flueckiger, Emory University Birgit Nikolay, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Huub C. Gelderblom, Emory University Jennifer L. Smith, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Danny Haddad, Emory University Wesley Tack, Avia GIS Guy Hendrickx, Avia GIS David Addiss, Emory University Jorge Cano, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Danny R. Hatcher, Environmenta...

The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between udder and leg hygiene scores of lactating dairy cattle and measures of subclinical mastitis. Study animals (n = 1250) consisted of lactating dairy cows from eight commercial dairy farms. Herds were enrolled during December 2000 and January 2001 and were visited bimonthly for a total of five visits per herd. Udder and leg hygi...

The subject of this paper is one that has come increasingly and compellingly to the attention of psychiatrists and other students of human behavior in recent years. The impact of the social environment on the life history, and the relevance of the life history to mental illness, are no longer in serious question as clinical and research findings. But, even though we have come a considerable dis...

Background and purpose:Consumption of baking soda, as a primary material for preparation of bread dough, has been banned due to its health complications in Iran. So bread production in our country faced difficulties and one part of them is related to health issues which are bread production. Also, in some cases, baking soda is used in the bread production. This study was done to study the envir...