Hand-washing promotion for preventing diarrhoea. [PDF]
Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2021 Background Diarrhoea accounts for 1.8 million deaths in children in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). One of the identified strategies to prevent diarrhoea is hand washing.
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Detecting hand washing activity among activities of daily living and classification of WHO hand washing techniques using wearable devices and machine learning algorithms [PDF]
Healthcare Technology Letters, 2021 During COVID‐19, awareness of proper hand washing has increased significantly. It is critical that people learn the correct hand washing techniques and adopt good hand washing habits.
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Impact of hand hygiene intervention on hand washing ability of school-aged children [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021 Background: To assess the current knowledge related to hand washing and efficiency of intervention on hand washing techniques amongst school children. Methodology: A randomized control trial was conducted amongst class II students of a private school in ...
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Proper Hand Washing for Elders
EDIS, 2006 Hand washing is an important way to reduce the spread of infectious diseases. Germs from human and animal sources can be transmitted to hands, which can transmit the germs to other people, foods, and anything else that the hands touch.
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Data, 2021 Washing hands is one of the most important ways to prevent infectious diseases, including COVID-19. The World Health Organization (WHO) has published hand-washing guidelines.
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BMJ, 1999 Editor—The editorial on hand washing calls for all hospital staff to start regularly washing their hands between each patient contact.1 If, as the authors claim, there is such compelling evidence for the need to wash hands between each patient contact then why do I and the vast majority of my colleagues not do it?
Handwashing Liaison Group
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Hand washing practice among public primary school children and associated factors in Harar town, eastern Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2022 Background Hand washing with soap and water reduces the risk of diarrheal episode by 28–48% and acute respiratory infection by 20–50%. However, there is limited evidence on hand washing practices among students in Eastern Ethiopia, particularly in Harari
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Has the COVID 19 Virus Changed Adherence to Hand Washing among Healthcare Workers? [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel), 2021 The aim of the study was to assess adherence to hand washing by healthcare workers (HCWs) and its variations over time in hospital wards. We wanted to check whether the pandemic had changed the behavior of HCWs.
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Associations of hand washing frequency with the incidence of illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Ann Transl Med, 2021 Background Hand hygiene is one of the ways to prevent the spread of diseases. Our aim was to explore the relationship between hand washing frequency and the impact on disease, and give recommendations on the number of times to wash hands.
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A modified hand washing method for resource limited settings [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 The Good Microbiological Practices & Procedures (GMPP) is the most significant risk control measure as per the fourth edition of the WHO laboratory biosafety manual. Among GMPP, one of the best practices is hand washing.
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