Hygiene in the home: Relating bugs and behaviour

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 657-672

  Curtis, Val ^a   Biran, Adam ^a   Deverell, Katie ^b   Hughes, Clarissa ^b   Bellamy, Kate ^b   Drasar, Bo ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faecal oral transmission; Hygiene; Infectious intestinal disease; Polio vaccine virus; UK

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; SOAP;

FECES; HYGIENE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATH; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; INTESTINE INFECTION; KITCHEN; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; SANITATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION; VIRAL CONTAMINATION;

ADULT; DIAPERS, INFANT; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FECES; FOCUS GROUPS; HANDWASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; INTERVIEWS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOTIVATION; OBSERVATION; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; TOILET FACILITIES;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0038798605     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00409-4     Document Type: Article

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