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External Websites
- Better Health Channel - Personal Hygiene
- Verywell Health - Evolution and History of Personal Hygiene
- Open Library Publishing Platform - The Importance of Hygiene and Grooming
- Thompson Rivers University Pressbooks - Personal Care Skills for Health Care Assistants - Personal Hygiene Care
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - A natural history of hygiene
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Aug. 15, 2024, 8:03 AM ET (CBS)
Health experts urge hygiene as North Texas students return to school
hygiene, the science of preserving health. The subject embraces all agencies affecting the physical and mental well-being of humans. It involves, in its personal aspect, consideration of diet and consumption of water and other beverages; clothing; work, exercise and sleep; personal cleanliness; and mental health. In its public aspect it deals with climate; soil; character, materials and arrangement of dwellings; heating and ventilation; removal of waste matters; medical knowledge on incidence and prevention of disease; and disposal of the dead.