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Ontario Hospital Association has just launched a campaign «Your Health Care - Be involved!» offering tips for hospitalized patients and usefull information on Ontario Hospitals such as waiting time, C.difficile rate etc.
Taking an active role in your care is essential for your own well-being and security.

The American Journal of Infection Control has published an article on the effectiveness of hand hygiene in reducing the risks of infections. The main conclusions are:

• hand hygiene remains the key factor to prevent infections particularly respiratory and gastro-intestinal infections
• Promotion in necessary to convince people of the effectiveness of good hand hygiene
• Education program and campaign should also promote other prevention measures.

«Children are the least hygienic beings among us, but they are also the most social beings» They are a direct source of infection contamination to the adults around them. A review by the Cochrane Library, examined evidence suggeting that good hand hygiene amongst children is a very effective prevention measure for all. To read the article, click here.

Vaccination of health care workers is part of what is considered to be primary prevention measures.