Organizational culture and its implications for infection prevention and control in healthcare institutions.

Background: It is not uncommon for infection prevention and control (IPC) interventions to be successful in one hospital yet fail, or have significantly less success, when implemented in another healthcare institution. Organizational factors have been postulated to be a major reason. As a result, there has been an increasing drive in recent years to understand and address organizational culture (OC) in order to achieve improved healthcare performance.

[Dental survey. Part XV. Dental visits 2: motivation and practice].

This paper is part of a series on the national oral health survey in the Netherlands (LEOT-project). In a previous article the results on dental attendance (as far as behavior and knowledge are concerned) were described. This paper presents the results concerning the other determinants of the dental attendance behavior of the dentate Dutch population.

[National dental health survey. 4. Dental visits. 1. Behavior and knowledge].

This paper is part of a series on the national oral health survey in the Netherlands (LEOT-project). Previous articles described the development of the questionnaires and the results concerning oral hygiene and nutrition. This paper presents the results as for the dental attendance behaviour and knowledge concerning it of the dentate Dutch population.

The problem of participation in the Dutch National Dental Survey.

In 1986 a nationwide dental survey was carried out in the Netherlands. The aims of the study were to assess the prevalence of oral diseases, need and demand for dental care and oral selfcare in the Dutch population aged 15-74 yr. This paper describes the general sampling and analysis procedures to detect selectivity in the participation.

[The dental self care of the dentate Dutch population; nutrition].

This paper presents the results of a nationwide dental survey as far as the nutrition behavior and its determinants of the dentate Dutch population is concerned. It is found that the avoidance of sugar containing products for the sake of dental health is not very common; only 8% of the dentate population shows this behavior rather frequently. Despite the existence of a fair amount of knowledge about the relation of sugar consumption and dental health, the main part of the dentate population does not belief in the effectiveness of sugar avoidance in the preservation of the teeth.