Hand Wash, one of the key social insurance
The fifteenth of October every year is an overall handwashing day. What are the topics and targets focused at this year?
Consistently, October 15 is commemorated as Worldwide Handwashing Day. The theme of the year 2018 is focused on the link between handwashing and food, including food hygiene and nutrition. The world's Handwashing day Jargon this year, namely "clean hands are the best recipes for health," reminding each individual to make a hand wash as part of the activity both before and after meals.
As in previous years, the World Handwashing Day was a global advocacy day aimed at raising public awareness of the importance of handwashing with soap. This activity also becomes an opportunity to design, test, and implement creative methods to support individual handwashing with soap at important moments.
Participating in World Handwashing Day
The following are some of the ways you can make the encouragement to wash your hands on the World Handwashing Day:
- Wash hands with soap at any important time, especially before eating, while cooking, and when feeding the child.
- Be an example of handwashing behavior, and reminding or helping others to always wash your hands before eating.
- Making handwashing is a part of family eating habits.
- Set a place to wash your hands at home, in the community, at school, at work, and in the health facilities.
- Supports effective change in handwashing behavior in research, policy,, program and advocacy.
Although everyone in the corners of the world has washed hands with running water, only a few use soap. That's because the availability of soap in some developing countries is still limited. If there is soap, often the object is only used to wash clothes or bathing.
In fact, washing hands with soap and running water proved to reduce the risk of infection of the disease. This simple and inexpensive action also suppresses the spread of germs more effectively.
Then, what are the benefits of washing hands with soap and running water routinely? First, eradicate the germs attached to the hand. Secondly, it prevents the transmission of germs to other people in the surrounding environment. Overall, the purpose of washing hands with soap and running water routinely can suppress the risk of occurrence and spread of harmful diseases.
On that basis, each parent is encouraged to educate the child to wash hands with flowing water and soap since childhood. By applying the habit, the child will become accustomed and apply it to adulthood. Also, it is important to remind the child to wash their hands before and after eating, after touching the pet, after playing, or after coughing and sneezing.
With the world handwashing day, hopefully, the community can be more vigorous in implementing a clean and healthy lifestyle. Make your hands wash as habits that need to be done as a daily routine. Thus, the risk of exposure to germs and disease incidence can be reduced. Come on, wash your hands!