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...

BACKGROUND Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) result in significant morbidity and mortality. Hand hygiene remains a cornerstone intervention for preventing HAIs. Unfortunately, adherence to hand hygiene guidelines among healthcare personnel is poor. OBJECTIVE To assess short- and long-term effects of an infection prevention promotion program on healthcare personnel hand hygiene behaviors...

background: the food hygiene and its distribution places are very important. tourists go to the places that provide them with enough assurance, trust and security. in this situation, providing proper services and appliances like food distributing places with appropriate environmental health condition is effective in attracting their interest. the objective of this research is evaluating the env...

1 IARC, Lyon, France; 2 Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, Universita’ di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 3 Institute of Hygiene, Public Health, Health Services and Management, Bucharest, Romania; 4 Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia; 5 Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; 6 National Inst...

1 IARC, Lyon, France; 2 Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, Universita’ di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 3 Institute of Hygiene, Public Health, Health Services and Management, Bucharest, Romania; 4 Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia; 5 Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; 6 National Inst...

Diarrhea has been identified as a major cause of childhood morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study examines two weeks incidence of diarrhea among children under six years in Accra. The results indicate that the household economic status and education of the mother are significant determinants of diarrhea. There is a significant association between diarrhea morbidity and access to water and s...

During the last few decades, the prevalence of atopic disease has increased globally, not only in industrialised countries, but also in less industrialised countries, especially in urban centres with a westernised lifestyle. The hygiene hypothesis suggests that a relationship exists between improved hygiene and an increase in atopic disease prevalence. It is clear that this relationship may be ...

Background Inverse associations between allergic disease and having pets or siblings are commonly attributed to the hygiene hypothesis. As an extension, one could posit that a less diverse gut microbiome in the infant, also linked with the development of allergic disease, would be a function of fewer microbes in the home environment. Piglet studies, however, indicate that greater microbe divers...

Health care-associated infections (HAI) remain a major cause of patient morbidity and mortality. Although the main source of nosocomial pathogens is likely the patient's endogenous flora, an estimated 20% to 40% of HAI have been attributed to cross infection via the hands of health care personnel, who have become contaminated from direct contact with the patient or indirectly by touching contam...

Introduction / objectives Environmental contamination with nosocomial pathogens on the near–patient surfaces and equipment has been associated with its indirect transmission. Thorough, regularly scheduled cleaning and disinfection of the environment is essential to break this transmission. Environmental hygiene is a priority for all healthcare faciltiies. Unfortunately, despite regular cleaning...