Physicians as food-safety educators: a practices and perceptions survey
| Autor: | Bridget J. Anderson, Katherine Gibbs McCombs, Kristen Noonan, Ruthanne Marcus, Robb Garman, Stephanie Wong, Beletshachew Shiferaw, Marguerite A. Hawkins, Thomas Van Gilder, Ellen Swanson, Sue Shallow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Disease Physician education Foodborne Illnesses Foodborne Diseases Patient Education as Topic Perception medicine Humans Physician's Role media_common Food security business.industry Public health Data Collection digestive oral and skin physiology Food safety United States Infectious Diseases Consumer Product Safety Family medicine Multivariate Analysis Food Microbiology Health education business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 38 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 |
| Popis: | An estimated 4 million bacterial foodborne illnesses occur in the United States annually. Many of these illnesses can be prevented by educating the public about food-safety practices. We investigated both the role of physicians as food-safety educators and the barriers to providing food-safety information. Participants were randomly selected physicians (n = 3117) practicing within the surveillance area of the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network; 1100 were included in the study. Although only 331 (30%) of 1110 respondents provided food-safety information to their patients, 524 (68%) of 769 who did not provide information expressed interest in doing so. Physicians were more likely to provide food-safety information to patients if they perceived foodborne disease to be a serious problem, perceived food-safety education as their role, felt that patients perceived them as a valuable resource for food-safety advice, or felt comfortable making food-safety recommendations. A national physician education campaign that addresses barriers in food-safety education could improve food-safety education by physicians. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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