Primary Prevention and Health Promotion | Presentation

Primary Prevention and Health
Promotion via Hand Hygiene and
Sanitation in a Public Health Clinic
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Epidemiological Rationale
• Most disease causing bacteria and germs spread from not washing hands or
having a lack of proper sanitation.
• It has been seen that washing hands regularly before and after eating can reduce
diarrheal infections by half and respiratory diseases up to 16% (Cdc.gov.,
2020).
• According to statistics by WHO, over 2 billion people lack access to clean
sanitation practices and a large number of people, specifically over 673 million,
are still thought to defecate in the open (World Health Organization, 2019)

Nursing Diagnosis
• Not maintaining a proper hand hygiene
schedule can cause an increase in
respiratory diseases which commonly
include influenza, common cold and
even serious illness like meningitis
(Initial UK - Blog., 2020).
• Unhealthy sanitation on the other hand
has the capability to spread serious
diseases such as cholera, Hepatitis A,
typhoid and dysentery (Who.int., 2020).

The Audience and Willingness to Learn
• It is important to inform people beforehand about the program so that
those who are willing to learn participate in the program.
• It is important to make the target audience interested in the health
education.
• It is important that people can relate to the problem as providing an
overview of the problem often does not work. Personalized problems must
be presented rather than universal ones (Unicef.org., 2020).