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Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to a massive global socio-economic tragedy that has impacted the ecosystem. This paper aims to contextualize urban and rural environmental situations during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. RESULTS: An onlin...
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author | Abouzid, Mohamed El-Sherif, Dina M. Al Naggar, Yahya Alshehri, Mohammed M. Alothman, Shaima El-Seedi, Hesham R. Trabelsi, Rayhana Ibrahim, Osama Mohamed Temraz, Esraa Hamouda Buimsaedah, Ahmad Aziz, Ibrahim Adel Alwan, Muhammad Al Hasan, Nuha Hadi Jasim Ragab, Heba Nasser Koraiem, Abdullah Muhammed Ahmed, Mareb H. Temraz, Heba Hamouda Madeeh, Alyaa Khaled Alshareif, Mohanned Osama Elkhafeefi, Fatimah Saad Badis, Imed-Eddine Abdelslam, Asmaa E. Ali, Almajdoub Ali Mohammed Kotni, Nour El Imene Amer, Thuraya |
author_facet | Abouzid, Mohamed El-Sherif, Dina M. Al Naggar, Yahya Alshehri, Mohammed M. Alothman, Shaima El-Seedi, Hesham R. Trabelsi, Rayhana Ibrahim, Osama Mohamed Temraz, Esraa Hamouda Buimsaedah, Ahmad Aziz, Ibrahim Adel Alwan, Muhammad Al Hasan, Nuha Hadi Jasim Ragab, Heba Nasser Koraiem, Abdullah Muhammed Ahmed, Mareb H. Temraz, Heba Hamouda Madeeh, Alyaa Khaled Alshareif, Mohanned Osama Elkhafeefi, Fatimah Saad Badis, Imed-Eddine Abdelslam, Asmaa E. Ali, Almajdoub Ali Mohammed Kotni, Nour El Imene Amer, Thuraya |
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description | BACKGROUND: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to a massive global socio-economic tragedy that has impacted the ecosystem. This paper aims to contextualize urban and rural environmental situations during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. RESULTS: An online survey was conducted, 6770 participants were included in the final analysis, and 64% were females. The majority of the participants were urban citizens (74%). Over 50% of the urban residents significantly (p < 0.001) reported a reduction in noise, gathering in tourist areas, and gathering in malls and restaurants. Concerning the pollutants, most urban and rural areas have reported an increase in masks thrown in streets (69.49% vs. 73.22%, resp.; p = 0.003). Plastic bags and hospital waste also increased significantly with the same p-value of < 0.001 in urban areas compared with rural ones. The multifactorial logistic model for urban resident predictors achieved acceptable discrimination (AUROC = 0.633) according to age, crowdedness, noise and few pollutants. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic had a beneficial impact on the environment and at the same time, various challenges regarding plastic and medical wastes are rising which requires environmental interventions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-12313-3. |
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spelling | pubmed-87905512022-01-26 Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context Abouzid, Mohamed El-Sherif, Dina M. Al Naggar, Yahya Alshehri, Mohammed M. Alothman, Shaima El-Seedi, Hesham R. Trabelsi, Rayhana Ibrahim, Osama Mohamed Temraz, Esraa Hamouda Buimsaedah, Ahmad Aziz, Ibrahim Adel Alwan, Muhammad Al Hasan, Nuha Hadi Jasim Ragab, Heba Nasser Koraiem, Abdullah Muhammed Ahmed, Mareb H. Temraz, Heba Hamouda Madeeh, Alyaa Khaled Alshareif, Mohanned Osama Elkhafeefi, Fatimah Saad Badis, Imed-Eddine Abdelslam, Asmaa E. Ali, Almajdoub Ali Mohammed Kotni, Nour El Imene Amer, Thuraya BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to a massive global socio-economic tragedy that has impacted the ecosystem. This paper aims to contextualize urban and rural environmental situations during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. RESULTS: An online survey was conducted, 6770 participants were included in the final analysis, and 64% were females. The majority of the participants were urban citizens (74%). Over 50% of the urban residents significantly (p < 0.001) reported a reduction in noise, gathering in tourist areas, and gathering in malls and restaurants. Concerning the pollutants, most urban and rural areas have reported an increase in masks thrown in streets (69.49% vs. 73.22%, resp.; p = 0.003). Plastic bags and hospital waste also increased significantly with the same p-value of < 0.001 in urban areas compared with rural ones. The multifactorial logistic model for urban resident predictors achieved acceptable discrimination (AUROC = 0.633) according to age, crowdedness, noise and few pollutants. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic had a beneficial impact on the environment and at the same time, various challenges regarding plastic and medical wastes are rising which requires environmental interventions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-12313-3. BioMed Central 2022-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8790551/ /pubmed/35081927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12313-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Abouzid, Mohamed El-Sherif, Dina M. Al Naggar, Yahya Alshehri, Mohammed M. Alothman, Shaima El-Seedi, Hesham R. Trabelsi, Rayhana Ibrahim, Osama Mohamed Temraz, Esraa Hamouda Buimsaedah, Ahmad Aziz, Ibrahim Adel Alwan, Muhammad Al Hasan, Nuha Hadi Jasim Ragab, Heba Nasser Koraiem, Abdullah Muhammed Ahmed, Mareb H. Temraz, Heba Hamouda Madeeh, Alyaa Khaled Alshareif, Mohanned Osama Elkhafeefi, Fatimah Saad Badis, Imed-Eddine Abdelslam, Asmaa E. Ali, Almajdoub Ali Mohammed Kotni, Nour El Imene Amer, Thuraya Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context |
title | Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context |
title_full | Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context |
title_fullStr | Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context |
title_full_unstemmed | Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context |
title_short | Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context |
title_sort | investigating the current environmental situation in the middle east and north africa (mena) region during the third wave of covid-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8790551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35081927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12313-3 |
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