2. HYGIENE
Drinking, eating, washing, excreting – these are things we do every day
of our lives. But the way we do them can have a major impact on our
health. Good hygiene practices are an essential part of daily life and we
all need to understand what hygiene means, why it’s important for our
health and wellbeing,and how we can change our behavior to safeguard
our health. Promoting good hygiene in your community and educating
people in ways to protect themselves and their families from ill health is
one of the most important aspects of your work.
3. HYGIENE
What is the HYGIENE means ?
Hygiene - It is a branch of medical science which
studies of regularities how environment influence
on human health with the purpose of
substantiation diagnostic, treatment and preventi
-on measure among people.
4. Hygiene
Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that
help to maintain health and prevent the spread
of diseases.
But what is this conditions what we have to do ? Th
ink about it
5.
6. Health is a state of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being and not merely the absen
ce of disease or infirmity. WHO.
7. History of hygiene
Religious laws, such as Moses’ Law, writings in the Old and New
Testaments and laws in the (QURAN), played major roles in the
lives of ancient peoples. These laws mainly concentrated on th
e provision of personal hygiene. Dead bodies and contaminated
surfaces were known to be unclean or unhygienic to touch. The
importance of burying human faeces was also strongly indi-cate
d. The importance of body cleanliness before praying was a moti
ve for maintaining the integrity of hygiene with a religious practic
e
Prehistoric
8. Modern time
A number of discoveries in the 19th century were important
events for the understanding of communicable diseases. For
example, the link between contaminated water and cholera w
as discovered by John Snow in 1854; the importance of hygie
nic hand washing before attending delivery of a baby was no
ted by Dr. Semmelweis in1845; and the discovery that microo
rganisms (very small organisms only visible under a microsco
pe) cause disease was made by Louis Pasteur around this tim
e.
10. Environmental health is the control of all the factors
in a person’s physical environment that have, or can
have, a damaging effect on their physical, mental or
social wellbeing
12. The focus of hygiene is mainly on personal hygiene
that looks at cleanliness of
hair, body, hands, fingers, feet and clothing, and menstrual hygiene.hair, body, hands, fingers, feet and clothing, and menstrual hygiene.hair, body, hands, fingers, feet and clothing, and menstrual hygiene.
hair
fingers feet
body hands
cloths
Way of
eating
Improvements in
personal knowledge,
skill and practice
that modify an
Individual’s behaviou
-r towards healthy
practice are the
focus of hygiene pro
motion
13. Sanitation الصحي الصرف
means the prevention of human contact with wastes, for hygienic purposes.
It also means promoting health through the prevention of human contact
with the hazards associated with the lack of healthy food, clean water and
healthful housing, the control of vectors (living organisms that transmit
diseases), and a clean environment. It focuses on management of waste
produced by human activities.
14. There are differences between hygiene, sanitation and
environmental health
While hygiene focuses on individual personal hygiene/
cleanliness, sanitation often refers to waste management,
and environmental health has a broader meaning beyond
hygiene and sanitation, referring to where we live, work
and play. The focus of environmental health is on how
environmental risk factors affect human health.
15. Environmental health planning requires you to
gain knowledge of problems in your area and to
identify needs and gaps, to set priorities and find
resources to solve the problems.
16. Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the
e bacterium Vibrio cholerae .
It’s symptoms may range from none, to mild, to sever .
large amounts of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days
Vomiting
muscle cramps تشنجات
sunken eyes,
cold skin,
decreased skin elasticity,
and wrinkling of the hands and feet
17. It is spread mostly by water and food that has been contam
-inated with human feces containing the bacteria.Insufficiently
cooked seafood is a common source.[6] Humans are the only
animal affected. Risk factors for the disease include poor
sanitation, not enough clean drinking water, and poverty.
