(n.) That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.
Example Sentences:
(1) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(2) The socioeconomic and hygienic features of the patients' homes, some clinical variables, the therapeutic habits and the features of the foci were evaluated.
(3) This technique enables the demonstration of an hygienic parameter important for food microbiology within a short time.
(4) Significant correlations existed between the average number of leukocytes in the gingival exudate and the oral hygiene indices.
(5) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(6) The survival and the interactions of selected, hygienically relevant bacterial species in activated carbon filters was investigated.
(7) One abutment was used to evaluate each of nine oral hygiene instrumentation methods used for specified lengths of time or instrument strokes.
(8) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(9) More than 80% of the carriers who were interviewed ignored the directions about personal hygiene.
(10) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
(11) A total of 1097 people in two communities in Chiapas, Mexico, were examined for trachoma, and information was obtained about personal and family hygiene.
(12) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
(13) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
(14) The measures to be adopted are also stressed in view of a more strict control and protection of human and animal health together with environmental hygiene from Salmonella infection and other Enterobacteria which are increasingly met inhuman and animal pathology.
(15) Principal directions of hygienic investigations are determined.
(16) This outbreak underscores the importance of adopting appropriate industrial hygiene measures in a rapidly industrializing nation such as Taiwan.
(17) The oral hygiene practices and oral hygiene status were poorer among children from low than from high socioeconomic status.
(18) Kathon is an anti-microbial agent that is used as a preservative in cosmetics and bodily hygiene products.
(19) Oral hygiene education during pregnancy either is not provided or at best inadequately available.
(20) Preventive hygiene wards off or reduces these infections.
Sanitation
Definition:
(n.) The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(2) Emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is augmented in settings in which treatment may be inadequate because of socioeconomic constraints and where there is crowding and poor sanitation.
(3) Most recommended mastitis control practices were estimated to be economically beneficial; however, using a sanitizer in the washing solution and having a company change the milking machine inflations were not economical.
(4) The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water report published in 2014 highlights that national policies for water and sanitation exist in most developing countries but fall short in two areas: lack of clear targets for universal access, and lack of capacity to implement policies.
(5) The study demonstrates the feasibility of using such an approach to evaluate two levels of water supply and sanitation service quickly and at moderate cost.
(6) Diarrhoea can be prevented by improving communal sanitation and personal hygiene, and by giving breast as opposed to bottle feeding of infants.
(7) Specifically, ECO is in a good position to collaborate on ecological planning, model-building, and research evaluation, while CEPIS is geared to provide advice and assistance in the key field of environmental sanitation.
(8) • The International Medical Corps is recruiting qualified healthcare practitioners, water, sanitation and environmental experts, psychosocial staff and logistics, human resources and finance professionals to work in Ebola treatment units in Sierra Leone and Liberia How to donate to aid agencies and organisations tackling Ebola USAid has collated a list of NGOs responding to Ebola .
(9) Composting loos should be the answer to the world's toilet crisis Read more The water and sanitation target is simple and unambiguous: by 2030 every man, woman and child – whether at home, school, hospital or their workplace – should have access to a safe water supply and be able to go to the toilet in a clean space with privacy.
(10) It would also be helpful to begin a four-decade urban sanitation planning effort along with an "Urban Watch" to promote significant developments in peri-urban settlements.
(11) The complex treatment included antibacterial therapy taking into account the antibiotic sensitivity of the microflora, correction of disturbances of the protein and water-salt metabolism, desintoxication measures, immunotherapy and sanitation of purulent cavities and the tracheobronchial tree.
(12) Improved water supplies and sanitation are seen as a major part of the programme which will be supplemented by chemotherapy.
(13) Ghana, despite making great advances in development, and with one of the highest GDPs in west Africa, still has 80% of its urban population with poor sanitation.
(14) Another table lists selected sociodemographic indicators related to malnutrition in the areas of mortality, maternal and child health and nutrition, food consumption and child care, environmental sanitation and services, potential demand for food and services, and employment.
(15) Patients who had money were seen before her.” Lack of safe water and sanitation at health centres is also a major concern .
(16) A chlorine sanitizer was circulated (5 min, 40 degrees C) and the unit containing sanitizing solution left idle overnight.
(17) Carolien van der Voorden, senior programme officer, Global Sanitation Fund, WSSCC 5.
(18) Finding the funds to invest in durable and improved sanitation remains a major hurdle.
(19) The health problems of Ecuador are similar to those in other developing countries where the standard of living is low, and housing and sanitation are inadequate.
(20) Photograph: James Drew Turner This was the cri de coeur from experts who gathered in the Guardian’s London offices for a roundtable event, in association with the UN’s water supply and sanitation collaborative council ( WSSCC) , to debate how the international community will fund sustainable development over the next 15 years.