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Precauciones básicas: Higiene de las manos
recommended
La plupart des infections associées aux soins de santé peuvent être évitées grâce à une bonne hygiène des mains - se laver les mains au bon moment et de la bonne manière. Les directives de l'OMS sur l'hygiène des mains lors des soins de santé soutiennent la promotion et l'amélioration de...
Affiche - Cette affiche imprimable peut être utilisée pour sensibiliser les gens aux moments clés du lavage des mains au savon afin de prévenir la propagation de COVID-19. Elle est conçue pour tous les publics et peut être téléchargée gratuitement par le biais du centre de ressources de GHP...
WHO recommends member states provide universal access to public hand hygiene stations and making their use obligatory on entering and leaving any public or private commercial building and any public transport facility. It is also recommended that healthcare facilities improve access to and practice ...
3rd editionThe compendium provides guidance on low-cost handwashing facilities that can be widely used in low and middle-income countries. We hope that this can be shared extensively as governments and agencies tackle the crisis in low and middle-income countries where handwashing facilities are urg...
Orientations provisoires
1er avril 2020
Les États Membres doivent améliorer les pratiques d’hygiène des mains de manière ambitieuse afin d’aider à prévenir la transmission du virus de la COVID-19 :
1. en fournissant un accès universel à des postes publics d’hygiène des mains et ...
Infographic illustrating how to wash your hands correctly when there is limited access to soap and clean water.
L’ hygiène des mains est la mesure la plus efficace pour réduire la propagation des infections dans le cadre de stratégies multimodales, y compris l’accès à des fournitures appropriées. Les présentes orientations concernent donc tous les pays ...
Precauções básicas: higienização das mãos
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A maioria das infecções associadas a cuidados de saúde podem ser prevenidas com a correta higienização das mãos, ou seja, a limpeza das mãos nos momentos corretos, e da forma correta. As Diretrizes da OMS de higienização das mãos nos serviços de saúde incentivam a promoção e o aprimora...
Standard precautions: Hand hygiene
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Most health care-associated infections are preventable through good hand hygiene – cleaning hands at the right times and in the right way. The WHO Guidelines on hand hygiene in health care support hand hygiene promotion and improvement in health care facilities worldwide and are complemented by th...
Précautions standards : Hygiène des mains
recommended
La plupart des infections associées aux soins de santé peuvent être évitées grâce à une bonne hygiène des mains - se laver les mains au bon moment et de la bonne manière. Les directives de l'OMS sur l'hygiène des mains lors des soins de santé soutiennent la promotion et l'amélioration de...
Current evidence indicates that the COVID-19 virus is transmitted through respiratory droplets or contact. Contact transmission occurs when contaminated hands touch the mucosa of the mouth, nose, or eyes; the virus can also be transferred from one surface to another by contaminated hands, which fac...
Hygiene advice in English, Turkish, Arabic, French and Russian Information in your language
By taking just a few simple measures, you can help protect yourself and others against infectious diseases. Find key hygiene tips here in your language.
Die Infografik "Infektionen vorbeugen: Die 10 wichtig...
Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Jul [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.200915
Infection control instructions call for use of alcohol-based hand rub solutions to inactivate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. We determined the virucidal activity of World Health Organization–recommen...
Die folgenden Empfehlungen sind als Unterstützung und Anregung gedacht, die stets individuell angepasst undabgewandelt werden können. Sie basieren auf unserem Wissensstand vom 18.03.2020.
La promoción del lavado de manos es fundamental para minimizar la transmisión de SARS-COV-2 y para salvar vidas. Una de las maneras más frecuentes de trasmisión de SARS-COV-2 es a través de manos contaminadas al tocarse la boca, la nariz y los ojos. También se puede transferir el virus de una ...
La higiene de manos es la más eficaz de todas las medidas para reducir la propagación de infecciones mediante estrategias multimodales que incluyen el acceso a los suministros correspondientes. Por tanto, las presentes orientaciones son pertinentes para todos los p...
GoMo Health is focused on continuing to support health and wellbeing. In an effort to complement the abundance of public domain information available. This is a list of upbeat songs to sing while washing one's hands.
The concentration of sodium hypochlorite available in the country must be used to prepare the disinfecting solution according to the intended use, following the indications presented in this document.
