Healthcare-associated infection is a major safety issue affecting the quality of care of hundreds of millions of patients every year in both developed and developing countries. To meet the goal of ensuring patient safety across healthcare settings around the globe, the World Health Organization launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety in October 2004. Healthcare-associated infections were...

We investigated the incidence of HPV and risk factors for infection among rural Uyghur women in the Xinjiang province of northwestern China, where there is a high incidence of cervical cancer. We used the careHPV kit to test 6000 sexually active Uyghur women aged 21 to 60 years for HPV, and conducted a comprehensive questionnaire survey to identify relevant HPV infection factors. Our data show ...

Proper hand hygiene is the single most essential, simplest and economical means of reducing the prevalence of hospital acquired infections and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. The current study was conducted on fifty health care providers (including doctors, respiratory therapists, physiotherapists, nurses and ward boys) who were inquired on their awareness and habit of handwashing. Samp...

There is little information available about incidences and causes of foodborne illnesses that can help the government develop policies, which prevent them in the UAE. This study includes a group of multinational subjects (males and females), residing in Al Ain, UAE, and of an age ranging between 15 and 55 years. A questionnaire designed to assess “Knowledge” and “Practice” of public hygiene mea...

Water & Sanitation scenario in Rajasthan state of India is quite alarming. This state can be improved with joint efforts of community and Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs). An international NGO named “Save the Children” is working on this subject since 2009 to educate local villagers about water borne diseases and hygiene practices along with providing them with pure drinking water and const...

Sleep problems are prevalent among older adults, often persist untreated, and are predictive of health detriments. Given the limitations of conventional treatments, non-pharmacological treatments such as mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are gaining popularity for sleep ailments. However, nothing is yet known about the impact of MBIs on sleep in older adults with prodromal sleep disturbanc...

Clean food 159 partly possible to legislate about the latter. It would be interesting to know whether more outbreaks of food poisoning begin in homes than in public eating-places. Where home hygiene is poor, the family has often a high resistance, but where homes are clean, immunity is probably acquired late, or not at all. This means, in effect, that a rising standard of hygiene in homes makes...

BACKGROUND Although observational studies are popular, little has been done to study the integrity of human observers and the data collection process. Issues of data collection integrity threaten functional findings, leading to problematic interpretation and decreased replication. In our study the response effort associated with hand hygiene data collection in a hospital setting was manipulated...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate tooth-brushing technique and oral hygiene knowledge in Rawalpindi population. This study was a single centre, descriptive study which was carried out at the Department of Operative Dentistry, AFID, Rawalpindi from January 2010 to January 2011. 500 individuals fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included in the study. They were asked about their to...