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Evaluating the complex interactions between malaria and cholera prevalence, neglected tropical disease comorbidities, and community perception of health risks of climate change.
- Source :
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment; Oct2017, Vol. 27 Issue 7, p714-732, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The burgeoning literature on the climate change–human health nexus has focused almost exclusively on the health impacts of climate change with little attention to how ill-health and disease influence public perception of the health risks of climate change. Based on a cross-sectional survey of 1,253 individuals, linear regression was used to examine the independent effects of malaria and cholera prevalence, and neglected tropical disease comorbidities on perceived health risks of climate change. Individuals who reported more comorbidities had higher scores on perceived health risks of climate change compared with those who did not report any comorbidities. Unexpectedly, at the multivariate level, there were no statistically significant relationships between age of respondents, gender, and educational attainment on the one hand, and perceived health risks of climate change on the other hand. Individuals who were diagnosed with cholera in the past 12 months had higher scores on perceived health risks of climate change but there was no relationship between diagnosis with malaria in the past 12 months and perceived health risks. Individuals who had attained secondary education had lower scores on perceived health risks of climate change compared with those without any formal education. Given that this relationship did not exist at the bivariate level, it indicates that biosocial and sociocultural factors suppressed the relationship between secondary education attainment and perceived health risks of climate change. The findings underscore the complex relationship between perceived health risks of climate change and infectious disease, comorbidities, compositional, and contextual factors at the multivariate level. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CHI-squared test
CHOLERA
CLIMATE change
ENVIRONMENTAL health
FACTOR analysis
MALARIA
PROBABILITY theory
QUESTIONNAIRES
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH funding
RISK perception
STATISTICAL sampling
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
TROPICAL medicine
COMORBIDITY
MULTIPLE regression analysis
EDUCATIONAL attainment
DISEASE prevalence
CROSS-sectional method
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10911359
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 125545161
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2017.1336961