Meigs Health Matters… The importance of handwashing
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Keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent COVID-19 and other viruses from spreading. Handwashing is one of the best ways to keep you and your family from getting sick. Germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with your hands. Transmissions can occur when you prepare food or drinks with unwashed hands. And also, when you sneeze, cough, or blow your nose and then touch common objects.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water or using a hand sanitizer of at least 60% alcohol to avoid the transmission of germs. Critical times for handwashing are before and after:
Meigs Health Matters… The importance of handwashing
senior portraits, professional portrait
Keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent COVID-19 and other viruses from spreading. Handwashing is one of the best ways to keep you and your family from getting sick. Germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with your hands. Transmissions can occur when you prepare food or drinks with unwashed hands. And also, when you sneeze, cough, or blow your nose and then touch common objects.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water or using a hand sanitizer of at least 60% alcohol to avoid the transmission of germs. Critical times for handwashing are before and after:
Meigs Health Matters… The role of a public health nurse
By Terri Hoschar - Meigs Health Matters
Public health revolves around the motto Prevent, Promote, Protect the health of all population groups making sure the community is healthy and safe. Public health nursing is an integral component of the overall public health system.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Meigs County Health Department (MCHD) and its public health nursing staff have been put to the test. Public health nursing has done its best to prevent the spread of the virus; promote infection control; and protect the public with education and administration of vaccines.
Meigs Health Matters… The role of a public health nurse
By Terri Hoschar - Meigs Health Matters
Public health revolves around the motto Prevent, Promote, Protect the health of all population groups making sure the community is healthy and safe. Public health nursing is an integral component of the overall public health system.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Meigs County Health Department (MCHD) and its public health nursing staff have been put to the test. Public health nursing has done its best to prevent the spread of the virus; promote infection control; and protect the public with education and administration of vaccines.
Meigs Health Matters… Open burning
By Daschle Facemyer - Meigs Health Matters
One of the things people do to dispose of certain items is to burn them, but this could cause some environmental and health impacts if you burn the wrong things. Smoke can carry harmful pollutants which can harm the air that we breathe. When you burn any type of item it will leave behind ash which gets carried off through the air and can pollute the soil, groundwater, river, lakes and streams. Burning anything outdoors can cause a wildfire if not doing it safely. Burning only approved materials and following state regulations can minimize the potential for these harmful effects.