Hand washing protects us by removing infection-causing germs from our hands before they get a chance to infect us (e.g. through our eyes, mouths or noses) or the people around us. The healthcare world that most of us experience -- and the one that clinicians are traditionally incentivised to operate in -- has been one of "sick care", in which we focus our time and energies on treating diseases once they have appeared, or reached a point where they can no longer be ignored. The practice of medicine often resorts to a "reactive" state because the information which can be acquired from an individual, whether blood tests, vital signs, electrocardiograms or other measures, is incomplete at best, especially for the majority of us who spend most of our lives away from clinics and hospitals. Further compounding our reactive system is the fact that the ability to understand and make decisions from sporadic and fragmented health data (traditionally stored remotely in paper files) has primarily been left to interpretation by clinicians, doctors and consultants.
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Protects against common infections
It protects us against common infections like colds, flu and gastro, but it may also protect us against really nasty diseases.
While washing one’s hands seems like a fairly simple task, it’s disturbing to note that only 1 in every 20 people around the world washes their hands properly, according to a survey of more than 18 000 adults across 12 countries, including Australia.
Washing our hands is one of the first things our mothers teach us. But if these survey results are anything to go by, it certainly is time for a good refresher course . . .
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