The "Hygiene Awareness Manual" focuses on promoting improved hygiene practices within communities, emphasizing personal and household hygiene, wate...r safety, and environmental health. It highlights the importance of handwashing, oral hygiene, and maintaining cleanliness of the skin and clothing as key aspects of personal and family hygiene. Specific practices such as regular bathing and wearing clean clothes are also emphasized.
For household hygiene, the manual provides guidance on safe food preparation and storage, as well as keeping living spaces, kitchens, and latrines clean to prevent contamination. It also addresses water safety, emphasizing the need to store water in clean containers, treat it for safe consumption, and dispose of wastewater properly to avoid environmental contamination.
The manual underscores the significance of balanced nutrition and food safety, offering guidelines for cooking and preserving food to reduce health risks. It also delves into disease prevention, explaining the causes and transmission of waterborne and hygiene-related diseases, such as cholera and dysentery, and outlining effective methods to prevent them through proper sanitation and hygiene.
This comprehensive guide serves as a practical resource for community health workers and households, aiming to foster better hygiene practices, prevent diseases, and enhance overall health and well-being.
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Manuale zur Durchführung von Workshops für Geflüchtete.
Zur Unterstützung der Durchführung der Workshops und als Hilfe für die Ausbildung wurden Manuale erstellt, die das didaktische und methodische Vorgehen erklären und als Leitfaden für die Durchführung von Workshops dienen. Die Manuale... stehen in den Sprachen: Albanisch, Arabisch, Bulgarisch, Deutsch, Englisch, Farsi, Russisch und Türkisch zur Verfügung
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Hygiene advice in English, Turkish, Arabic, French and Russian Information in your language
By taking just a few simple measures, you can help protect yourself and others against infectious diseases. Find key ...box">hygiene tips here in your language.
Die Infografik "Infektionen vorbeugen: Die 10 wichtigsten Hygienetipps" der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) gibt einen Überblick über einfache persönliche Hygienemaßnahmen, um sich und andere vor ansteckenden Infektionskrankheiten zu schützen. Das Plakat ist in sieben Sprachen verfügbar.
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Die folgenden Empfehlungen sind als Unterstützung und Anregung gedacht, die stets individuell angepasst undabgewandelt werden können. Sie basieren auf unserem Wissensstand vom 18.03.2020.
Des milliers de personnes meurent chaque jour des suites d’infections acquises au cours des procédures de soins.
313 millions de personnes subissent une opération chirurgicale chaque année – soit deux fois le nombre de bébés qui naissent dans le monde
Des mains propressont des mains sûres. Mes mains sont-elles propres ?
The COVID-19 Hygiene Hub is a free service to help actors in low- and middle-income countries rapidly share, design, and adapt evidence-based hygiene interventions to combat COVID-19.
First Global Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care is Safer Care
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 ...ss="attribute-to-highlight medbox">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.
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Hand Hygiene: Why, How, & When?
A manual to train health-care workers on practising, teaching and observing hand hygiene.
Your 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene
Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force
This document provides a summary of the recommendations for hand hygiene best practices to be performed by health workers providing care and/or support to patients with filovirus infection (Ebola and Marburg viruses).