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Hygiene and Environmental Health

Hygiene and environmental health together address the conditions and practices that prevent disease and protect well-being through control of the physical surroundings. Hygiene encompasses personal and community behaviors, such as handwashing, sanitation, and infection prevention, that interrupt the transmission of …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 11 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 66× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Hygiene and environmental health together address the conditions and practices that prevent disease and protect well-being through control of the physical surroundings. Hygiene encompasses personal and community behaviors, such as handwashing, sanitation, and infection prevention, that interrupt the transmission of pathogens, while environmental health concerns the influence of water, sanitation, waste, and living conditions on population health. Both are foundational to public health, particularly in preventing communicable disease. The articles gathered here reflect these priorities, with emphasis on water, sanitation, and infection control. Waterborne disease features in work on municipal decision-making strategies to combat waterborne illness and on the prevalence of diarrhea and its associated factors among young children. Sanitation infrastructure is examined through studies of improved latrine coverage and its determinants in rural communities. Infection prevention and control are central to analyses of knowledge, attitudes, and practices among healthcare workers, the role of hospital cleaning practices, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic across limited-resource settings, including mask adoption and multi-sectoral approaches. Oral health prevention appears in school-based programs using fluoride and silver ion compounds, and maternal and child health integration is also considered. Together these contributions illustrate how hygiene and environmental health operate through prevention, education, infrastructure, and behavior change to reduce disease burden and improve health, especially where resources are constrained.

Research published in this journal

11 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 11 articles above have been cited 66 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Hygiene and Environmental Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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