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Science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, prevention, and control of those environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the workplace which may cause sickness, impaired health and well being, or significant discomfort among workers or among citizens of the community. An industrial hygienist is a person with a college or university degree or degrees in engineering, chemistry, physics, medicine, or related physical and biological sciences who, by virtue of special studies and training, has acquired competence in industrial hygiene. Such special studies and training must have been sufficient in all of the above cognate sciences to provide the abilities to anticipate and recognize environmental factors and to understand their effect on humans and their well-being, to evaluate on the basis of experience and with the aid of quantitative measurement techniques) the magnitude of these stresses in terms of ability to impair human health and well-being, and to prescribe methods to eliminate, control, or reduce such stresses when necessary to alleviate their effects. Source: American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)

Occupational hygiene Category:Health sciences

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Hygiene

Hygiene is the maintenance of healthful practices. In modern terminology, this is usually regarded as a particular reference to cleanliness. Outward signs of good hygiene include the absence of visible dirt (including dust and stains on clothing) or of bad smells. Since the development of the germ theory of disease, hygiene has come to mean any practice leading to the absence of harmful levels of germs. Good hygiene is an aid to health, beauty, comfort and social intercourse. Good hygiene directly aids in disease prevention and/or disease isolation. (That is, if you are healthy, good hygiene will help you avoid illness. If you are sick, good hygiene can reduce your contagiousness to others.) Washing is the most common example of hygienic behavior. Washing is often done with soap or detergent which helps to remove oils and to break up dirt particles so they may be washed away. Hygienic practices -- such as frequent hand washing or the use of boiled (and thus sterilized) water in medical operations -- have a profound impact on reducing the spread of disease. This is because they kill or remove disease-causing microbes (germs) in the immediate surroundings. For instance, washing one's hands after using the toilet and before handling food reduces the chance of spreading E. coli bacteria and hepatitis A, both of which are spread from fecal contamination of food.

Origin of the term

The word hygiene is derived from the name of the Greek goddess of health known as Hygieia. She was the daughter of Asclepius and sister to Panacea. While her father and sister were connected with the treatment of existing disease Hygeia was regarded as being concerned with the preservation of good health and the prevention of disease.

Commercial and cultural aspects

TV advertising campaigns in many countries have attempted to influence public opinion that only clean and sterile is healthy and safe. While the general advantages of hygienic behavior are undisputed,

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Hygiene

regarding the antibacterial issue -- i don't know but is germ resistance really an issue here like it is with antibiotics? I thought antibacterial agents differ from antibiotics in that they are used externally and are physically destructive to microogranisms so they can not evolve a resitance to them... whereas antibiotics, being used internally, are more mild and target specific features unique to bacteria. Triptych I think it is. The interesting finding that children from excessively clean homes were more susceptible to asthma - the source of which I haven't yet traced - The British Medical Journal of 24 October 1998 - indicates that it is not just antibiotic resistance that is an issue here. Stan 21:37, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) The hygiene article needs a bit of beefing up as it is a very wide subject and I don't think adequately covered here. Stan 21:37, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) I'm also interested in children's seemingly natural aversion to allowing their mouths to come into contact with articles that have been in contact with other people's mouths. Is this universal, i.e. non-learnt, and therefore can be considered instinctive, or it is something learnt? From my own experience it seems such a ubiquitous phenomenon that I wonder whether it isn't instinctive, borne of an evolutionary advantage to children who do not allow themselves to risk infection from others. Stan 19:56, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) ---- A couple of things: as a sufferer of asthma, I have always found the frequency of attacks to be related to the amount of dust or plant material in the air. As far as I was aware the condition itself is not directly affected by ambient bacteria, but of course if those bacteria lead to respiratory infection it's a different story. Is there more info somewhere? More importantly, the "Cultural/commercial aspects" section (and attendant heading) strike me as POV. Before I flex my "be bold" fingertips here, I'd like to know what other people think? Am I just reading too much into it?

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Hygiene

Hygiene is the maintenance of healthful practices. In modern terminology, this is usually regarded as a particular reference to cleanliness. Category:Health bg:Категория:Хигиена ja:category:衛生 zh:category:卫生

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