ハワイで愛犬とセミリタイア生活写真日記

Today’s high was 41F, low was 34F.
When I looked out through the window, a split second I thought it was snowing; it was cold autumn rain.
(6 O'clock news says "It's snow"!!)
It seems the global warming has nothing to do with NY.

John caught a cold for several days.
Even though I am good at washing my hands, I have been infected by this virus, too.
(My immune system is weakening by my medications.)

Anyway, doctors say hand washing is the best flu prevention.

Today is Global Hand-Washing Day which is a campaign to motivate and mobilize millions around the world to wash their hands with soap. The campaign is dedicated to raising awareness of hand washing with soap as a key approach to disease prevention.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine spent several months leading up to last year's Global Handwashing Day peering through a camera's lens at men and women using a service station's restroom at a major crossroads in Britain. Their challenge: to gauge not only how many people actually use soap when they wash their hands, but also what messages -- flashed onto LED screens at the entrance to the toilets -- will most effectively induce people to use soap when they wash their hands?

Men are basically gross: Fewer than a third of them (32%) used soap when they washed their hands -- and those were the ones that actually washed their hands. And they responded best to hand-washing-reminder messages that invoked disgust, such as "Wash it off now or eat it off later."

Women are not as gross, though there is room for improvement. Fully twice as many women (64%) used soap. And women seemed especially receptive to messages that were "reminders" of good-hygiene measures they were presumed to know already, such as the always appropriate "Water doesn't kill germs...." (In fact, any messages that included the word "germs" were the most successful in inducing soapy hand-washing in women, but least successful in doing so in men.)
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/10/its-global-handwashing-day-do-you-know-where-your-soap-is.html )

今日は国連（UN）が定めた「世界手洗いの日(グローバル・ハンドウォッシング・デイ)」です。
世界73カ国で石鹸で手を洗うことの重要性が呼びかけられます。
石鹸での手洗いは、
毎年約350万人もの子どもたちの命を奪っている下痢性疾患と肺炎を防ぐ、
最も効果的で経済的な方法のひとつです。

英語のリンク ）

３２日間にわたり、約２５万人の手洗い行動を調査。
さらにトイレの入り口に設置した電光掲示板でさまざまなメッセージを表示し、
人々の行動の変化について調べました。

通常のトイレ後の手洗い時に石鹸を使う人の割合は、
男性で３２％、女性では６４％。
電光掲示板にメッセージを点滅させた実験では、
男性では通常より約１２％多く、女性では通常より１１％多くが石鹸を使用。
男性に一番効果があったメッセージは
「今洗い落とすか、後で”それを”食べるか」

「水はばい菌を殺しません」

それにしても半数以上の男性は汚いですね。
握手も出来ませんね。