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| Title: | Neighborhood environment and self-rated health among adults in southern Sri Lanka | Authors: | Perera, B Østbye, T Jayawardana, C |
Keywords: | adult aged article crowding dog drug use environmental stress female health health survey human major clinical study male mental health mosquito noise pollution sanitation sewage social environment Sri Lanka waste water availability water quality Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Animals Cross-Sectional Studies Culicidae Dogs Environment Female Health Humans Male Middle Aged Public Health Practice Sri Lanka Stress, Psychological Young Adult Canis familiaris |
Issue Date: | 2009 | Citation: | Perera, B, Østbye, T, Jayawardana, C (2009). Neighborhood environment and self-rated health among adults in southern Sri Lanka. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 6 (8) : 2102-2112. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6082102 | Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International | Abstract: | 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. © 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International. | Source Title: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/183275 | ISSN: | 16604601 | DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph6082102 | Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International |
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