M Woldie, B Admassu,* G Tolu Feyissa, T Alaro, K Mitchell, S Mayhew, M McKee, D Balabanova. Department of Health Economics, Management and Policy, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Ethiopia; Department of Population and Family Health, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Ethiopia; Department of Health Education and Behaviour sciences, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University,...

Hygiene procedures for hands, surfaces and fabrics are central to preventing spread of infection in settings including healthcare, food production, catering, agriculture, public settings, and home and everyday life. They are used in situations including hand hygiene, clinical procedures, decontamination of environmental surfaces, respiratory hygiene, food handling, laundry hygiene, toilet hygie...

Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Centre for Statistical Methodology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Departments of Medical Statistics and Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK and Centre for Public Hea...

This paper offers an approach for governments to harness the information contained in social media in order to make public inspections and disclosure more efficient. As a case study, we turn to restaurant hygiene inspections – which are done for restaurants throughout the United States and in most of the world and are a frequently cited example of public inspections and disclosure. We present t...

The history of the Center for Occupational Health (COH) at the National Institute of Public Health in Prague dates back to the early 1950s. The Center was established on January 1, 1952. The first director of the Institute was Prof. Jaroslav Teisinger, M.D., D.Sc. (1902–1985), the founding father of occupational medicine in former Czechoslovakia, and the head of the first Czech Department of Oc...