Open AccessAn epidemiological study on the predictors of health status of food handlers in food establishments of teaching hospitals of North India
Author(s) -
Arun Kumar Singh,
Rashmi Katyal,
Varsha Chaudhary,
Kusum Narula,
Deepak Upadhayay,
Shailendra Pratap Singh
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine/the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3670
pISSN - 0973-2284
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5278.173999
Subject(s) - environmental health , medicine , hygiene , hand washing , outbreak , toilet , population , food poisoning , food preparation , test (biology) , disease , food safety , paleontology , pathology , virology , biology
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USDHHS-CDC 1996) revealed that the outbreaks of food borne diseases include inadequate cooking, heating, or re-heating of foods consumption of food from unsafe sources, cooling food inappropriately and allowing too much of a time lapse. As we all know that the food handlers have been working in various types of community kitchen and their health status can affect the status of food hygiene which can lead to contamination of foods attributing to acute gastroenteritis and food poisoning in various subgroups of the population e.g., medical/dental/nursing students. The background characteristics of these food handlers may have important role to affect health status of these handlers.