Complying with infection control standards is essential to prevent nosocomial infections. We aimed to determine health workers' hygiene practices and compliance with recommended instructions for personal hygiene among staff in all 30 hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The results showed that physicians and nurses were less compliant with personal hygiene practices th...

INTRODUCTION Poor hygiene practices and inadequate sanitary conditions play major roles in the increased burden of communicable diseases within developing countries. This study evaluated the KAP of hygiene among rural school children in Ethiopia and assessed the extent to which proper knowledge of hygiene was associated with personal hygiene characteristics. METHODS This cross-sectional study...

background and aims: beauty salons are considered as the places which the environmental health and renovation are adhered too. they can improve the society’s health and influence controlling the diseases. not considering this issue causes the spread of skin and hair diseases and infections and louse. this study was aimed to determine the health status of beauty salons of kashan in 2014. methods...

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...

Introduction Bad water, sanitation and personal hygiene combined are after malnutrition globally considered as the major treats to human health. According to Michaud et al (2001) malnutrition accounted for nearly 6 million deaths (11.7% overall) and 220 million DALYs (15.9% overall) and the corresponding figures for poor water supply, sanitation, and personal hygiene accounted for 2.6 million d...

a campaign to deal with this problem and emphasizes the part played by the practitioner in this scheme; the worker in India will get many valuable hints from this chapter. Early chapters discuss the hygiene of nutrition, of clothes, of exercise and rest, and of air and sunshine, sex hygiene, maternity and child hygiene, and personal mental hygiene. Sewage disposal and the protection of water su...