background: children are the most sensitive and vulnerable group in terms of tooth decay. any change or improvement in health-related knowledge and behavior in this group can have long-term and significant impacts on the health of the future generation. thus, the present study was conducted with the aim to determine the relationship of knowledge of oral health-related issues with the decayed, m...

Wr had the pleasure of noticing the first edition of this book, and can testify to the thorough way in which the present edition lias been brought lip to date. It is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise 011 hygiene, but we think clearly fulfils its function of being a clear, reliable and practical manual for the use of students, practitioners and health officers. Nowadays every practising ...

Objective. The study was conducted to study the impact of various measures instituted to improve hand hygiene practices of the medical students after having documented poor hand hygiene awareness and compliance in a study conducted in 2012. Methods. A self-designed questionnaire based on World Health Organization's concept of "Five Moments for Hand Hygiene" was used to evaluate the awareness of...

OBJECTIVE The effectiveness of hand hygiene education was investigated by studying the hand hygiene awareness and bacterial hand contamination among a random sample of 170 women in the community. METHODS Questionnaire was used to assess the hand hygiene awareness score, followed by swabbing of the dominant hand. Bacterial identification was done by conventional biochemical tests. RESULTS Be...

background: lassa fever is an acute, virulent viral haemorrhagic illness with high morbidity and mortality rates. its awareness remain low in sub urban or rural community. this study was carried out to assess the awareness of lassa fever of a rural community in the south western part of nigeria. methodology: a descriptive cross sectional study of 122 respondents prior to a sensitization seminar...

BACKGROUND Although there is advancement in the health-care system, the rates of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are still high. Poor hand hygiene (HH) among healthcare workers (HCWs) is identified as one of the major causes of HAIs. AIMS The aim and objective of this study is to assess the awareness and attitude regarding hand hygiene (HH) among HCWs in a superspecialty hospital in Ghazi...

Background. Hand hygiene is a cost-effective method in preventing infection transmission. Hand hygiene practices have been found to be faulty in most healthcare settings. We conducted a study to evaluate the awareness, and compliance of hand hygiene among undergraduate medical students during their clinical phase in Qassim College of Medicine, Saudi Arabia. Methods. A questionnaire based on Wor...

In support of Canada’s Hand Hygiene Campaign, The Southwest Community Care Access Centre (SWCCAC) and its contracted service providers, in collaboration with the South Western Ontario Infection Control Network (SWOICN), is launching a community-care hand hygiene campaign. The campaign is entitled “Infection Control... it’s in your hands.” It is designed to create increased awareness about the i...