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Availability and factors influencing community level handwashing facility in Ethiopia: Implication for prevention of infectious diseases.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundHandwashing is one of the most effective ways to prevent transmission of infectious diseases. A substantial body of research has examined the status and determinants of handwashing facilities in healthcare settings and schools.
Daniel Bogale Odo, Alemayehu Gonie Mekonnen   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of drinking water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on immune status in young children: a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2021
Audrie Lin, Andrew Mertens, Sophia T. Tan, Md Ziaur Rahman, Lisa Hester, Lisa E. Kim, Benjamin F. Arnold, Md. Rabiul Karim, Sunny Shahriar, Shahjahan Ali, Abul K Shoab, Md Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Syeda L Famida, Salma Akther, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Caitlin Hemlock, Alan Hubbard, Christine P. Stewart, Lia C. H. Fernald, John M. Colford, Stephen P. Luby, Firdaus S. Dhabhar   +24 more
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Handwashing Research: Handwashing in a Pandemic [PDF]

, 2021
Between April 2020 and January 2021, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) with Ipsos MORI collected data on handwashing to understand how and why people wash their hands and the impact the pandemic has had on their handwashing behaviour. This report combines the findings from the qualitative and quantitative research conducted by the FSA alongside other ...
openaire   +1 more source

Sustainability as Justice: Making the “Leave No One Behind” Work

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically engages with the LNOB principle of the 2030 Agenda, highlighting its conceptual, methodological, and structural limitations. Building on Amartya Sen's social choice theory and Rawlsian justice, it reconceptualizes “sustainability as justice,” emphasizing real‐world comparative assessments grounded in intersectionality. It
Rallou Taratori, Flavio Comim
wiley   +1 more source

Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
wiley   +1 more source

EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child handwashing in an internally displaced persons camp in Northern Iraq: A qualitative multi-method exploration of motivational drivers and other handwashing determinants.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:Children in humanitarian situations are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as diarrhoea. Handwashing with soap can greatly reduce transmission but handwashing rates are often low and traditional interventions ineffective.
Julie Watson, Oliver Cumming, Robert Aunger, Claudio Deola, Rachel P Chase, Robert Dreibelbis   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Universal Cytomegalovirus Screening in the First Trimester of Pregnancy: The Multicentre Observational Cohort Study in the Area of Barcelona (CITEMB Study)

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the CMV seroprevalence among pregnant women and assess the rate of primary CMV infections during the first trimester. Design Prospective multicentre observational cohort study. Setting Four primary care centres (ASSIRs) and two tertiary hospitals in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Pupulation or Sample Pregnant women
María Ángeles Sánchez‐Durán, Juliana Esperalba, Elena Scazzocchio, Irene Fernández‐Torm, Eva Vázquez‐Segura, Olga Gracia‐Salazar, Marta Calveiro‐Hermo, Jordina Munrós‐Feliu, Astrid Francesch‐Campi, Laia Alcoverro‐Bedos, Aleida Ribas‐Tristany, Cristina del Viso‐Lajara, Julia Mitjans‐Carrasco, Mercedes Guerrero‐Martínez, Gema Fernández‐Rivas, Aneta Monika Zientalska, Liudmila Liutsko, Gemma Falguera‐Puig, Cristina Martínez‐Bueno, Nerea Maiz, Roser Gol, the CITEMB group   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Handwashing with soap and national handwashing projects in Korea: focus on the National Handwashing Survey, 2006-2014 [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2015
OBJECTIVES: Handwashing is the most fundamental way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Correct handwashing can prevent 50 to 70% of water-infections and foodborne-infections. We report the results of a fact-finding study on general handwashing
Moo-Sik Lee, Su Jin Hong, Young-Taek Kim
doaj   +1 more source