American Journal of Hygiene

American Journal of Hygiene
Title American Journal of Hygiene PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1066
Release 1922
Genre Epidemiology
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American Journal of Hygiene

American Journal of Hygiene
Title American Journal of Hygiene PDF eBook
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Pages 1084
Release 1921
Genre Communicable diseases
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Vol. 2-7 include Proceedings of the Society of Hygiene of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University.

WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care

WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care
Title WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care PDF eBook
Author World Health Organization
Publisher World Health Organization
Pages 0
Release 2009
Genre House & Home
ISBN 9789241597906

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The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to patients and HCWs. The present Guidelines are intended to be implemented in any situation in which health care is delivered either to a patient or to a specific group in a population. Therefore, this concept applies to all settings where health care is permanently or occasionally performed, such as home care by birth attendants. Definitions of health-care settings are proposed in Appendix 1. These Guidelines and the associated WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy and an Implementation Toolkit (http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/) are designed to offer health-care facilities in Member States a conceptual framework and practical tools for the application of recommendations in practice at the bedside. While ensuring consistency with the Guidelines recommendations, individual adaptation according to local regulations, settings, needs, and resources is desirable. This extensive review includes in one document sufficient technical information to support training materials and help plan implementation strategies. The document comprises six parts.

Communicable Diseases, 6th Edition

Communicable Diseases, 6th Edition
Title Communicable Diseases, 6th Edition PDF eBook
Author Roger Webber
Publisher CABI
Pages 392
Release 2019-11-19
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 178639524X

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Completely updated and revised, and now published in its 6th edition, this book includes 20 chapters providing an essential overview of infectious diseases for almost 25 years. A comprehensive yet synoptic account of infectious diseases, it covers theory, epidemiology and control, then systematically groups diseases by their main means of transmission. There are special chapters on infections in pregnancy and the concern of new and emerging diseases, and an annex lists all 353 diseases in an easy reference table. This edition includes updates to all chapters and a new section on melioidosis. It provides information concisely so it can be found at a glance, includes numerous clear diagrams, bullet points and tables for rapid review and learning, and contains a new full-colour internal design and online lecture slides to facilitate teaching. This book is an essential resource for physicians, medical students and all those in public health, and for healthcare workers needing a comprehensive yet concise practical text.

Journal of the American Public Health Association

Journal of the American Public Health Association
Title Journal of the American Public Health Association PDF eBook
Author American Public Health Association
Publisher
Pages 988
Release 1911
Genre Electronic journals
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Stronger Than Dirt

Stronger Than Dirt
Title Stronger Than Dirt PDF eBook
Author Juliann Sivulka
Publisher Prometheus Books
Pages 382
Release 2001
Genre Business & Economics
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Sivulka (journalism and mass communications, U. of South Carolina) explores what advertisements for packaged soap and related products reveal about changes in beliefs and values of society during the period; the visible expressions of those beliefs and values, what ritual of cleanliness were portrayed as socially necessary, and what types of advertising conventions developed as reliably successful. c. Book News Inc.

Chasing Dirt

Chasing Dirt
Title Chasing Dirt PDF eBook
Author Suellen Hoy
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 289
Release 1996-10-10
Genre History
ISBN 0195354850

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Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies, barnyard animals, dust, and dirt; clothes were seldom washed; men hardly ever shaved or bathed. Yet gradually all this changed, and today, Americans are known worldwide for their obsession with cleanliness--for their sophisticated plumbing, daily bathing, shiny hair and teeth, and spotless clothes. In Chasing Dirt, Suellen Hoy provides a colorful history of this remarkable transformation from "dreadfully dirty" to "cleaner than clean," ranging from the pre-Civil War era to the 1950s, when American's obsession with cleanliness reached its peak. Hoy offers here a fascinating narrative, filled with vivid portraits of the men and especially the women who helped America come clean. She examines the work of early promoters of cleanliness, such as Catharine Beecher and Sylvester Graham; and describes how the Civil War marked a turning point in our attitudes toward cleanliness, discussing the work of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, headed by Frederick Law Olmsted, and revealing how the efforts of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War inspired American women--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, and Louisa May Alcott--to volunteer as nurses during the war. We also read of the postwar efforts of George E. Waring, Jr., a sanitary engineer who constructed sewer systems around the nation and who, as head of New York City's street-cleaning department, transformed the city from the nation's dirtiest to the nation's cleanest in three years. Hoy details the efforts to convince African-Americans and immigrants of the importance of cleanliness, examining the efforts of Booker T. Washington (who preached the "gospel of the toothbrush"), Jane Addams at Hull House, and Lillian Wald at the Henry Street Settlement House. Indeed, we see how cleanliness gradually shifted from a way to prevent disease to a way to assimilate, to become American. And as the book enters the modern era, we learn how advertising for soaps, mouth washes, toothpastes, and deodorants in mass-circulation magazines showed working men and women how to cleanse themselves and become part of the increasingly sweatless, odorless, and successful middle class. Shower for success! By illuminating the historical roots of America's shift from "dreadfully dirty" to "squeaky clean," Chasing Dirt adds a new dimension to our understanding of our national culture. And along the way, it provides colorful and often amusing social history as well as insight into what makes Americans the way we are today.