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Received : 02-07-2022

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Get Permission Kushwaha: Practices of health and hygiene

A global massive disease burden is associated with deficient hygiene, sanitation, and water supply and is preventable through enhanced literacy and awareness levels as education is the cornerstone of poor sanitation and ill health.

Hygiene springs from “Hygeia” the deity of health in Greek mythology. It is outlined as the science of health and embraces all factors that contribute to healthful living.1 Personal hygiene includes water provider in the community, cleansing of water containers, water-born unwellness, loosely lying excretory material, important times of hand washing, type of hand wash, effluent discharged, waste management, bathing, and clothing, hand washing after use of the toilet, care of nails, feet, and teeth. Private hygiene aims to push standards of private cleanliness at intervals for the setting of the condition wherever individuals live. Each year, roughly 15,00,000 youngsters under five years of age die from diarrhea due to unsafe water and poor sanitation.2 Globally, water and sanitation, hygiene practices could be blamed for about 90% of diarrhea-related mortality, which is way above the combined mortality from protozoal infection and HIV/AIDS.3 Despite the very fact that these easy personal hygiene practices will enter preventing plenty of diseases, this subject has been neglected each in everyday life and within the literature.4 We, therefore, need to ensure that our healthcare educators are continuously trained and provided with the essentials to comprehensively care for the personal hygiene of women. Furthermore, follow-up evaluations should be performed regularly in the clinical environment and re-training should be administered where required.5

Acknowledgements

The authors are thankful to the Director, Zoological Survey of India for providing all possible facilities and support to undertake field surveys and to conduct research.

Conflict of Interest

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K Park Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine. 23st Edn.M/S Banarsidas Bhanot PublishersJabalpur, India200246

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Towards Total Sanitation and Hygiene: A Challenge for India2003Country Paper SeriesNew Delhihttp://www.mdws.gov.in/sites/default/files/

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A Kuberan A K Singh JB Kasav S Prasad KM Surapaneni V Upadhyay Water and sanitation hygiene knowledge, attitude, and practices among household members living in rural settings of IndiaJ Nat Sc Biol Med201561697410.4103/0976-9668.166090

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J Pal AK Pal Knowledge, attitude, and practice of personal hygiene and its predictors: A school-based study among adolescent girls in an urban slumInt J Med Sci Public Health20176914116

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SK Ray FA Zaman NB Laskar Handwashing practices in two communities of two states of Eastern India: An intervention studyIndian J Public Health20105431263010.4103/0019-557X.75734



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