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Black Hairy Tongue in a 54‐Day‐Old Infant: A Case Report [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports
Black hairy tongue is a benign condition caused by elongation and defective desquamation of the filiform papillae, and it is uncommon in neonates and infants.
Masanori Masui, Yumi Sakamoto, Yuki Kunisada, Soichiro Ibaragi   +3 more
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Factors associated with meat hygiene-practices among meat-handlers in Metropolitan City of Kathmandu, Nepal

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Meat hygiene refers to all conditions and measures necessary to ensure safety and suitability of meat at all stages of the food chain. Inadequate hygiene practices allow consumers to be exposed to pathogens causing public health problems.
Rabindra Bhandari, Anil Kumar Singh, Prakash Raj Bhatt, Ashish Timalsina, Rama Bhandari, Pratibha Thapa, Jijeebisha Baral, Sunil Adhikari, Pramila Poudel, Sudip Chiluwal, Prakash Chandra Joshi, Nabin Adhikari   +11 more
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AN OVERVIEW OF PERIOD POVERTY AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH BENEFIT IMPACT OF PROVIDING FREE FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS

International Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2022
Feminine hygiene products such as tampons, pads, and sanitary tissues are crucial to a menstruating person’s health. Feminine hygiene products are a multi-billion-dollar industry, and over the course of a menstruator’s life, they spend between roughly ...
Udit Dave, Ashwin Palaniappan, Emma Lewis, Brandon Gosine   +3 more
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Measuring hygiene competence: the picture-based situational judgement test HygiKo

BMC Medical Education, 2021
Background With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020, the crucial role of hygiene in healthcare settings has once again become very clear. For diagnostic and for didactic purposes, standardized and reliable tests suitable to assess
Susanne Katharina Heininger, Maria Baumgartner, Fabian Zehner, Rainer Burgkart, Nina Söllner, Pascal O. Berberat, Martin Gartmeier   +6 more
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A systematic review of observational methods used to quantify personal protective behaviours among members of the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the concordance between observational and self-report measures in infectious disease health protection

BMC Public Health, 2022
Objectives To assess the quantity and quality of studies using an observational measure of behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to narratively describe the association between self-report and observational data for behaviours relevant to ...
Rachel Davies, Fiona Mowbray, Alex F. Martin, Louise E. Smith, G. James Rubin   +4 more
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Observed and self-reported hand hygiene compliance and associated factors among healthcare workers at a county referral hospital in Kenya

Scientific African, 2021
Background: Hand hygiene is effective in preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). However, hand hygiene compliance remains low, and reasons are poorly understood, thus its research and feedback may lead to successful ...
Karlmax Kiprotich, Honghong Wang, Atipatsa Chiwanda Kaminga, Miriam Kessi   +3 more
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Birth attendants’ hand hygiene compliance in healthcare facilities in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background With an increasing number of women delivering in healthcare facilities in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), healthcare workers’ hand hygiene compliance on labour wards is pivotal to preventing infections.
Giorgia Gon, Mícheál de Barra, Lucia Dansero, Stephen Nash, Oona M. R. Campbell   +4 more
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Self-reported poor oral hygiene among in-school adolescents in Zambia

BMC Research Notes, 2011
Background Dental health is a neglected aspect of adolescent health globally but more so in low-income countries. Secondary analysis using the 2004 Zambia Global School-Based Health Survey (GSHS) was conducted in which we estimated frequencies of ...
Rudatsikira Emmanuel, Muula Adamson S, Siziya Seter   +2 more
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Epidemiological evaluation of patient compliance regarding oral health and hygiene during the COVID-19 period [PDF]

Einstein (São Paulo), 2023
Objective This work aimed to report values regarding oral hygiene habits at home during the pandemic and compare the difference with previous oral hygiene habits.
Antonia Sinesi, Valentino Natoli, Cinzia Casu, Savino Cefola, Ruggiero Damato, Roberta Grassi, Gianna Maria Nardi   +6 more
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Breaking a Guinness World Record on Hand Sanitizing Relay, initiating a call for vital research in overcoming campaign fatigue for hand hygiene [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/4gb]

F1000Research, 2014
Hand hygiene has been shown to be effective in significantly reducing hospital acquired infections for many years. However it is difficult to maintain and enhance compliance with hand hygiene guidelines. In Hong Kong, we previously reported a strategy to
Wing Hong Seto, Kwok-Hung Li, Christina Woon Yee Cheung, Patricia Tai Yin Ching, Benjamin J. Cowling   +4 more
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