You look in your fridge and see it’s pretty empty so you decide to take a trip to your local supermarket. As you’re walking in, you grab a basket to put all your items in and begin shopping. You pick up some items, fruits, bread, the usual stuff and proceed to the checkout line. The cashier rings up your items, you exchange money and you’re on your way back home. A couple days go by and visit your doctor because you are not feeling well only to find out that you have the flu. Little did you know that the basket you grabbed was put back by worker that sneezed all over their hands. The fruit was restocked by another worker that went to the bathroom but forgot to make that stop at the sink. Our group chose to put our “this is public health” sticker in the bathroom at Sweetbay Supermarket because washing your hands is a very important factor in public health. We all know that you are supposed to wash your hands after you use the bathroom but we always see that one person that walks out the bathroom and does not even look at the sink. Hand washing can be seen as primary prevention because it can prevent an illness from occurring at all. It can also been seen as secondary prevention because if any bacteria or disease is on a surface that you have touched, washing your hands can get the germs off before you spread them elsewhere or they end up in your body. Hand washing is also important in food preparation because you would not want any bacteria to spread to the food because it could cause food poisoning.

Group Members: Ciara Harris, Benisha McLendon, Sharland Johnson, Renard Dugue, Gbemisola Omolara