Overview
Food hygiene and sanitation encompasses the practices and conditions necessary to maintain food safety and prevent contamination throughout production, handling, preparation, and consumption, as well as the broader environmental and infrastructural systems that support public health. Research published in the International Journal of Nutrition examines how sanitation infrastructure and hygienic practices directly influence nutritional outcomes across diverse populations. Studies have investigated the relationship between environmental sanitation, hygienic behaviors, and nutritional status among vulnerable groups including women and children in rural India and Bangladesh, revealing connections between household sanitation conditions and health indicators. The journal has published work on waterborne disease management strategies at the municipal level and explored risk factors for childhood stunting in settings with inadequate sanitation infrastructure. Additional research addresses foodborne pathogens in clinical populations, the interplay between water systems and food security, and how household economic status affects access to safe food and sanitation resources. This body of work demonstrates that food hygiene and sanitation are critical determinants of nutritional health, particularly in resource-limited settings where inadequate infrastructure and unsafe practices contribute to malnutrition, infectious disease transmission, and poor developmental outcomes in children.
Research published in this journal
7 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Risk Factors for Stunted Growth among Children Aged 6–59 Months in Rural Uganda
Assessing The Nutritional Status and Health Outcomes of Women and Children in Rajshahi, Bangladesh: A Comprehensive Study
Socio Economic Profile and Nutritional Status of the Rickshaw Pullers of Dhaka City Along with their Energy Intake Gap
A Report on Water, Energy and Food Relationship
Common Complementary Feeding Practices Among Under-Five Children: The Case of Zambia
How this research is being cited
The 7 articles above have been cited 46 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2025 · Environmental Health
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2025 · International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services
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2024 · Sustainability
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2024 · The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man
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Rizkia Rachmi et al. · 2024 · Jurnal Gizi dan Pangan
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