Results 1 to 10 of about 648,189 (263)

Sleep hygiene – What do we mean? A bibliographic review

Sleep Medicine Reviews
There is no consensus on the definition of sleep hygiene and its components. We examined the definition of sleep hygiene based on its use in published studies.
Kate Sutherland, Alexandra E Shriane, Grace E Vincent   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene: 2022 Update

Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2023
The purpose of this document is to highlight practical recommendations to assist acute-care hospitals in prioritization and implementation of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene.
Janet B. Glowicz, E. Landon, E. Sickbert‐Bennett, A. Aiello, Karen deKay, K. Hoffmann, L. Maragakis, R. Olmsted, P. Polgreen, Polly A. Trexler, M. Vanamringe, Amber R. Wood, D. Yokoe, K. Ellingson   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hand hygiene in health care: 20 years of ongoing advances and perspectives.

Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print), 2021
Health-care-associated infections are the most prevalent adverse events of hospital care, posing a substantial threat to patient safety and burden on society.
Nasim Lotfinejad, Alexandra Peters, E. Tartari, Carolina Fankhauser-Rodriguez, D. Pires, D. Pittet   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Implementation of hand hygiene in health-care facilities: results from the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework global survey 2019

Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print), 2022
Summary Background Hand hygiene is at the core of effective infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes. 10 years after the development of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy, we aimed to ascertain the level of hand hygiene ...
M. D. de Kraker, E. Tartari, S. Tomczyk, Anthony Twyman, L. Francioli, Alessandro Cassini, B. Allegranzi, D. Pittet   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to affect the human microbiome in infected and uninfected individuals, having a substantial impact on human health over the long term. This pandemic intersects with a decades-long decline in microbial diversity and
B. B. Finlay, K. Amato, M. Azad, Martina Blaser, T. Bosch, Hiutung Chu, M. Dominguez-Bello, S. Ehrlich, E. Elinav, N. Geva-Zatorsky, P. Gros, K. Guillemin, Frederick Keck, T. Korem, M. McFall-Ngai, M. Melby, M. Nichter, S. Pettersson, H. Poinar, T. Rees, C. Tropini, Liping Zhao, T. Giles-Vernick   +22 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Food safety knowledge, attitude, and hygiene practices of street-cooked food handlers in North Dayi District, Ghana

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2021
Background Food safety and hygiene are currently a global health apprehension especially in unindustrialized countries as a result of increasing food-borne diseases (FBDs) and accompanying deaths.
Lawrence Sena Tuglo, P. Agordoh, David Tekpor, Zhongqin Pan, Gabriel Agbanyo, Min-yeh Chu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Denture cleanliness and hygiene: an overview

British Dental Journal, 2022
Dentures are an excellent treatment modality for partial and edentate patients; however, improper denture care and hygiene can result in both decreased longevity of the prosthesis and increased risk of developing dental caries, periodontal disease and ...
P. Mylonas, P. Milward, R. McAndrew
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding Period Poverty: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Menstrual Hygiene Management in Eight Low- and Middle-Income Countries

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Menstrual hygiene management and health is increasingly gaining policy importance in a bid to promote dignity, gender equality and reproductive health. Effective and adequate menstrual hygiene management requires women and girls to have access to their ...
L. Rossouw, H. Ross
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relationship between dental experiences, oral hygiene education and self-reported oral hygiene behaviour

PLoS ONE, 2022
Many preventive approaches in dentistry aim to improve oral health through behavioural instruction or intervention concerning oral health behaviour. However, it is still unknown which factors have the highest impact on oral health behaviours, such as ...
Maxi Mueller, Sarah Schorle, K. Vach, Armin Hartmann, Almut Zeeck, Nadine Schlueter   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hand Hygiene, Mask-Wearing Behaviors and Its Associated Factors during the COVID-19 Epidemic: A Cross-Sectional Study among Primary School Students in Wuhan, China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Although the emphasis on behaviors of hand-washing and mask-wearing was repeated during the pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), not everyone paid enough attention to this.
Xuyu Chen, Li Ran, Qing Liu, Qikai Hu, Xueying Du, Xiaodong Tan   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source