Neighborhood Environment and Self-Rated Health among Adults in Southern Sri Lanka

The prevalence of different neighborhood environmental stressors and associations between the stressors and self-rated health are described in a representative sample of 2,077 individuals, aged 18–85 years, in southern Sri Lanka. Mosquito menace (69.4%), stray dog problems (26.8%), nuisance from nei...

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Autores principales: Perera, Bilesha, Østbye, Truls, Jayawardana, Chandramali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19742209
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6082102
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description The prevalence of different neighborhood environmental stressors and associations between the stressors and self-rated health are described in a representative sample of 2,077 individuals, aged 18–85 years, in southern Sri Lanka. Mosquito menace (69.4%), stray dog problems (26.8%), nuisance from neighbors (20.3%), and nuisance from drug users (18.7%) were found to be the most prevalent environmental stressors. None of the stressors investigated were associated with self-rated physical health, but nuisance from neighbors, nuisance from drug users, shortage of water and having poor water/sewage drainage system were associated with self-rated mental health among the respondents.
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spelling pubmed-27388762009-09-08 Neighborhood Environment and Self-Rated Health among Adults in Southern Sri Lanka Perera, Bilesha Østbye, Truls Jayawardana, Chandramali Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The prevalence of different neighborhood environmental stressors and associations between the stressors and self-rated health are described in a representative sample of 2,077 individuals, aged 18–85 years, in southern Sri Lanka. Mosquito menace (69.4%), stray dog problems (26.8%), nuisance from neighbors (20.3%), and nuisance from drug users (18.7%) were found to be the most prevalent environmental stressors. None of the stressors investigated were associated with self-rated physical health, but nuisance from neighbors, nuisance from drug users, shortage of water and having poor water/sewage drainage system were associated with self-rated mental health among the respondents. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2009-08 2009-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2738876/ /pubmed/19742209 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6082102 Text en © 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6082102
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