BACKGROUND Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of healthcare-associated infections. An important control strategy is hand hygiene; however, non-compliance has been a major problem in healthcare settings. Furthermore, modeling studies have suggested that the law of diminishing return applies to hand hygiene. Other additional control strategies such as environmenta...

O.Chandra Sekhara Reddy and Endale Alemayehu Page No.153 Ordinal logistic regression analysis to assess the factors that affect health status of students in Ambo University: a case of natural and computational sciences college, Ambo University O.ChandraSekhara Reddy*, Endale Alemayehu Statistics Department, Ambo University, Ambo, Ethiopia. ..........................................................

The objective of this study was to analyze the scientifi c production on health interventions related to hygiene for adults with HIV/ AIDS. An integrative literature review was performed using six databases in June 2013. The descriptors AIDS and Hygiene were used, in Portuguese, English or Spanish. A total of 682 articles were found and 16 were selected. Personal hygiene practices were identifi...

Sleep is essential for recovery and performance in elite athletes. While actigraphy-based studies revealed suboptimal sleep in athletes, information on their subjective experience of sleep is scarce. Relatively unexplored is also the extent to which athletes' sleep is adversely affected by environmental conditions and daytime behaviours, that is sleep hygiene. This study aimed to provide insigh...

a Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University Stanford, California, CA, United States of America (USA). b Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Correspondence to Maggie Montgomery (e-mail: [email protected]). Few diseases are more closely linked to the environment than trachoma – th...

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AIMS To review the burden of allergic and infectious diseases and the evidence for a link to microbial exposure, the human microbiome and immune system, and to assess whether we could develop lifestyles which reconnect us with exposures which could reduce the risk of allergic disease while also protecting against infectious disease. METHODS Using methodology based on the Delphi technique, six...