TY - JOUR AU - Tilahun, Wendimagegn AU - Endebu, Tamrat AU - Abera, Tadesse PY - 2020/03/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Health Status of Food Handlers and Associated Factors at Hotels and Restaurants in Adama Town, Ethiopia JF - International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR) JA - IJSBAR VL - 50 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/10792 SP - 102-113 AB - <p>Introduction: Foodborne diseases are a public health concern globally. Each year as many as 600 million, or almost 1 in 10 people in the world, fall ill after consuming contaminated food. However, there is limited information about the health status of food handlers in the study area.&nbsp; Thus, the study assessed the health status of food handlers and associated factors at hotels and restaurants in Adama town, Ethiopia from November 13 to December 12, 2017. By using a cross-sectional study design and simple random sampling technique, data collected from 422 sampled food handlers. Descriptive and logistic regression analysis used to describe the study population and identify associated factors. &nbsp;The study revealed food handlers with good health status found to be 160 (37.9%), and the rest categorized as poor. The study found that hand washing before/after food preparations (PV=0.001), hand washing after toilet visits/dirt (PV= 0.001), training (PV= 0.036), medical checkups (PV=0.001) and clean work uniforms (PV=0.001) were factors independently associated with the health status of food handlers. This study concluded that a large proportion (62.1%) of food handlers found to be poor in their health status. Therefore, washing hands before food preparation, after toilet/contacts dirt, wear of clean work uniforms, attending training and medical check-up are important actions in maintaining the good health status of food handlers.</p> ER -