Hygiene: Help to Maintain Health and Prevent the Spread of Diseases

Cleanliness is a series of actions taken to improve one's well-being. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "cleanliness refers to situations and activities that help to maintain welfare and prevent the spread of infections." Individual cleanliness refers to maintaining the body's neatness. Many people associate cleanliness with 'neatness,' although cleanliness is a broad phrase. It incorporates close to home proclivity decisions, for example, how frequently to clean up, wash hands, trim fingernails, and wash clothing. It also recalls the importance of keeping surfaces in the house and workplace clean and microbe-free, especially restroom offices. Some habits of cleanliness may be regarded as useful by the general public, whereas contempt for cleanliness may be regarded as horrible, rude, or undermining. The phrases neatness and cleanliness are sometimes used interchangeably, which can cause confusion. Generally, cleanliness refers to practises that prevent the spread of disease-causing organisms. Cleaning methods (for example, handwashing) eradicate harmful bacteria as well as earth and soil, and are thus widely used to achieve cleanliness.

Author(s): Dragovich Branko

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