Hand hygiene education, an underutilized tool in preventing emerging, re-emerging infectious diseases and seasonal epidemics

Purpose: A common thread among most emerging infectious diseases is Hand Hygiene. So why isn ’t more being done to introduce, educate and bring awareness of this improtant topic among our youngest members in the community. We created a fun scientific experiment with second and third grade students to see if education and intervention will bring about a positive behavioral change that will subsequently decrease the rate of illness during peak influenza and norovirus season.
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: 20.130 Source Type: research