hygiene practices
Health maintenance habits
Hygiene practices are the routines and habits people follow to maintain cleanliness and prevent disease.
The term covers everything from handwashing and dental care to food handling and sanitation: The restaurant was cited for poor hygiene practices.
In healthcare settings, hygiene practices are formalized protocols to prevent infection transmission.
- handwashingCleaning palms with soap
- clean handsFreedom from wrongdoing
- bathingImmersion for cleanliness
- waste disposalRemoving and processing garbage
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
soap and water · foot care · mold prevention · food storage · pest control · mask usage · vaccination · air purification · skincare routines · shaving · nail trimming · dental care · sterilization · disinfection · water filtration · mouthwash · public health · flossing
- camp sanitationlatrines, outhouses, toilets, waste disposal, handwashing
- sanitationsewage, sewers, cleaning, sewer, disinfecting
- disinfectiondisinfection, sterilization, sanitization, disinfectant spray, disinfecting wipes
- tropical healthmalaria, dengue, dengue fever, cholera, typhoid
hygiene practicespoor hygiene
Inadequate self-care practices
dirtiness · contamination · squalor · uncleanliness · grime
hygiene practicesdisease vectors
Organisms spreading pathogens between hosts
hygiene practicesunkemptness
Lack of grooming
grubbiness · sloppiness · dishevelment · seediness · scruffiness
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