PERCEIVED ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO PARTICULATE MATTER AMONG RESIDENTS OF PORT HARCOURT (original) (raw)
Related papers
Sustainability in Environment
While millions of deaths are recorded from COVID-19 pandemic infection, the environment continues to benefits from the lockdown of cities. A descriptive cross-sectional survey aimed at assessing residents’ knowledge and perception concerning air pollution and breathing experience in Port Harcourt was carried out within 20th-28th of May, 2020. Convenience and purposive non-randomized sampling methods were used to recruit 358 participants. Using descriptive and chi square test analysis, majority (74% and 24%) of the respondents were very aware or aware of air pollution and its health consequences. This varied significantly with sex, age, marital status, occupation and location (p < 0.05). Before the city’s lockdown, 90.1% of respondents experienced particulate matter deposits on surfaces and during the lockdown; it reduces to 54.1% with significant difference (p < 0.05) across residential areas. Hence, age, sex, marital status, occupation and residential area likely to influence...
Journal of Health Research
Purpose In order to reduce the health impacts of air pollution effectively, developing strategies that involves individual or community level is crucial. The purpose of this paper is to assess people’s protective practices for inhalable particulate matter and its significant determinants such as general characteristics, knowledge and attitude among residents of an urban residential area, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This cross-sectional study was conducted by systematic random sampling. A total of 424 people, who lived in that area for not less than two years before the survey, were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. χ2 and Fisher’s exact test were used to analyze the data. Findings Only a small proportion of respondents had high practice level. In addition, a little more than half has high level of knowledge about inhalable particulate matter, its adverse health effects and protective practices and almost 70 percent had high level of attitude toward air...
Perceived Seasonal Impact of Air Pollution on Health and Properties in Port Harcourt
Archives of Current Research International
Air pollution is an environmental menace that has attracted a lot of concern both locally and globally. The Environment is very important to sustainability of life and air pollution has become of great concern to many countries across the world especially its impact on human health and ecosystem. This study thus, assessed perceived seasonal impact of air pollution on health and property of the inhabitants of Port Harcourt. Primary data in form of questionnaire was used to solicit information from the inhabitants of the study area. A cross-sectional research design was adopted using an online survey and a 24-question survey was designed on goggle documents website (doc.goggle.com). The link was active for three months and was strictly monitored, the link was disabled after receiving 400 responses. Data for the study were analyzed using cross-tabulation and bivariate percentage analysis. Results revealed that majority of the respondents were females (53.2%). However, 73.3% of the resp...
Treatment of Particulate Matter Pollution: People’s Attitude and Readiness to Act
Environmental and Climate Technologies
The paper displays results of the questionnaire called “Particulate matter pollution in air”, which serves as a tool to determine level of public awareness of the health risks related to pollution from small capacity heating equipment in households. Barriers for installation of the innovative flue gas treatment technology called a fog unit in households and possible mechanisms to decrease or prevent these barriers were defined. The first part of the questionnaire included overall information about participants: age, gender, education level, place of residence, activities to protect the environment and motives behind performing these activities. The remaining questions were divided in four groups: “Environmental views”, “Knowledge on air pollution”, “Willingness to pay”, “Choice of flue gas treatment technologies”. The results of questionnaire correspond with raised problem situations. Over 80 % of respondents lack information on pollution and possible consequences deriving from it, ...
AgriHealth: Journal of Agri-food, Nutrition and Public Health
Air pollution is a significant problem in Nigeria due to its negative effects on human health. This study is an empirical investigation into how local populations in Nigeria evaluate the impact of air pollution on public health. A structured questionnaire was used and distributed via an online Google form. One hundred thirty respondents provided information regarding the relationship between air pollution and its health effects in 6 cities in Nigeria. The analysis utilized descriptive and inferential statistics, and the data was statistically evaluated using the chi-square and ANOVA with a 95% confidence level. The mean and standard deviation values of respondent’s sex are 65 and 84.8, respectively. The mean and standard deviation of the respondent’s age are 43 and 35 years, where 4% were female (n = 5) and 96% were male (n = 125). The two inferential statistics revealed that the city did not significantly influence the health treatment, whereas the health treatment preferences were...
Air Pollution and Its Influence in Human Health: A Public Perception Survey
Air Pollution and Its Influence in Human Health: A Public Perception Survey, 2022
Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk that approximately kills 1 in 8 people globally, due to heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease and cancer. According to WHO air quality model (2016), about 92 % of world's population lives in places where air quality level exceeds the limits. When we breathe in dirty air or air pollutants deep into our lungs, it can cause new cases of a respiratory illness like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), asthma and respiratory allergy. The aim of the study is to assess the impacts of air pollution in health and also the awareness level among the general population of Tiruchirappalli City Corporation. Totally 500 participants were included in the ten locations of the study area using simple random sampling method which was based on commercial zone, traffic zone and residential zone. The sample was taken from the road siders, vendors, drivers and households between the month of December 2019 and March 2021. The data were collected and it was analysed using SPSS 16.0 Version software. 61.6% participants have known about the importance of clean air, and 50.2% respondents have read frequently about air pollution. 75.6% respondents believed that the impact of air pollution was "high" and 66.1% responded that the impact of health due to air pollution is also " high". Based on the survey, the people have knowledge about air pollution and its health. During the interview, the public perception, traffic and more vehicles were main reasons for pollution and it creates health effects like chronic cough, asthma, eye irritation and skin problems.
Industrialization with the increase in vehicular transportation and modernized life style equal the burgeoning increase in respiratory allergy in most countries. People who live in urban areas tend to be prone to respiratory diseases than those in rural areas. This study aims at investigating the pattern and the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and lung function using a structured questionnaire adopted from the MRC questions on respondents among residence in an urban and rural area in Southern Nigeria. A peak expiratory flow rate of the respondents was assessed by using a mini-Wright peak flow meter (Clements Clarke-London UK). During this study six hundred respondents were administered questionnaires which aimed at disclosing the frequency and duration of cough, production of phlegm, shortness of breath and occurrence of chest pain. The inhalable and respirable particulate matter captured exceeded the regulatory limit and the predominant symptom was difficulty in breathing. The anthropometric measurements: Weight, age and height were also done. The SKC XR5000 high volume gravimetric Sampler was used to capture the particulate matter (PM).
Perception of Sources of Air Pollution and Effects on Residents of Maiduguri
Abstract The attempts made to enhance the quality oflife ofthe citizenry especiallyintheurbancentresresultintheemissionofpollutantsintothe atmospherefrom bothstationaryandmobilesourcesatmicroandmacro levels.Thestudyseekstoinvestigatetheperceivedsources,typesandeffects orAirPollutioninUrbanMaiduguri,BornoState.Questionnairetaggedsources andeffectsofAirPollutioninUrbanMaiduguri(SEAPUM)wasusedtocollect dataforthestudy.From thepopulationof629,486(Census1991)peoplein MaiduguriMetropolitan,3,000wasusedasasample.Purposefulrandom samplingtechniquewasusedtocollectsamples.Simpledescriptivestatistics offrequencycountsand percentageswereused to analysedata on the researchquestions.ResultsofthestudyrevealedthatAutomobiles,Generators andBurningoffuelwoodaresomeofthemajorsourceswhileCandles,Incense BushlampandMosquitocoilsaresomeoftheminorsourcesofairpollutionin urban Maiduguri.Thetypesofpollutantsinclude:Carbon monoxide(CO), Sulphurdioxide(SO2)andSuspendedParticulateMatter(SPM)amongothers, allofwhicharedetrimentaltofaunaandflora.Basedonthefindingsofthe study,Mediacounselling,LegislationandEnvironmentalstudiesweresomeof themanagementstrategiesproffered.
An Evaluation of Environmental Contamination on Public Health: A Review of Air Pollution in Nigeria
Journal of Engineering Research and Reports, 2024
Numerous researchers have recognized environmental contamination as a potential danger to both the ecosystem and the general population's health. However, studies have shown that air pollution is a substantial contributor to a variety of respiratory conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), shortness of breath, respiratory infections, and other similar conditions. To counteract this, however, the formulation and execution of public health policies might be of assistance in the fight against environmental pollution. In this study, the researchers investigated the ways in which air pollution, being a kind of environmental contamination, leads to problems in public health. In light of this, we reviewed the assessment of surveillance and monitoring, the consequences of human exposure to air pollution on public health, the influence of environmental pollution on social behaviors, as well as the ethical and legal implications of environmental contaminations. The study came to the conclusion that it is imperative to initiate possible action, since reducing the amount of air pollutants and chemicals in the environment may assist in avoiding further consequences of environmental degradation as well as limit the amount of harm done to human health. As a result, it is necessary to include monitoring of ambient PM2.5 and other air pollutants over a long length of time at a number of places that are typical of important metropolitan activities. These areas include trash dumps, transportation, and manufacturing facilities.