(a.) Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.
(n.) An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Soon, reformers known as “sanitarians” focused their attention on replacing the haphazard and unsanitary plumbing arrangements in homes and workplaces with technologically advanced public sewer systems.
(2) The health team consisted of 6 physicians (1 sanitarian, 2 surgeons, 2 internists, and 1 pediatrician), 2 social workers, 1 nurse, and 1 educator.
(3) We employed trained and supervised health workers (physicians nurses, and sanitarians) as interviewers, and a pretested questionnaire was utilized for the purpose.
(4) The average time used for assessing the patients' perception of health was 37.9 minutes by sanitarians, 32.9 midwives, 29.9 by nurses and 24.8 by medical doctors.
(5) The reliability of the instrument was tested by paired interviewers; sanitarians and midwives, medical doctors and nurses, and was highly reliable for health risk and health-specific coping index.
(6) The average time required to complete the interview was 37.9 minutes for sanitarians, 32.9 minutes for midwives, 29.9 minutes for nurses, and 24.8 minutes for physicians.
(7) Among professionals, death rates were highest among sanitarians and veterinarians, and lowest among pharmacists.
(8) Preoccupancy testing by county sanitarians had found virtually no total coliform contamination.
(9) Public health professionals include physicians, nurses, sanitarians, biostatisticians, engineers, and administrators, and epidemiology is public health's basic science.
(10) Physicians, sanitarians, and military officers explored numerous theories regarding etiology and treatment before focusing on a combined regimen of common-sense hygiene and strict military discipline.
(11) Nurses, sanitarians, and others who become surveyors are required to participate in a four-to-six month survey orientation and training period before attending a three-week university-based course sponsored by DHEW.
(12) The paper opines that if the current 'women impact continuum' permeates the Environmental Health Profession female sanitarians could justify their inclusion in the Profession, if: (i) there is strength in their number; (ii) the Federal Government grants the Environmental Health Profession a statutory Regulatory Board; (iii) Women Sanitarians are given opportunities for in-service training; and (iv) the women's wing of the Association is recognized and integrated into the National Council of Women's Societies (NCWS) of Nigeria and shown a sense of belonging by the Better Life Programme for Rural Women (BELPRW).
(13) The author describes how this situation came about by reviewing (1) the history of the 19th-century sanitarians and how their traditions (especially of taking preventive action in the absence of definitive data, in order to ensure a margin of safety) later influenced the policies of the U.S. Public Health Service and, more recently, those of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (2) the tradition of recovering damages from someone who harms your property or person; (3) the tradition of engineers to eliminate pollutants without concern for their effects; and (4) the value system of conservationists and ecologists.
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.