Community Risk Perception and Waste Management: A Comparison of Three Communities

Issues related to the community resilience became more popular after the earthquake and Tsunami tragedy in the Indian Ocean and Aceh, Indonesia, 2004. The community resilience is the ability of communities to withstand and mitigate the stress of a disaster, there is less clearness on the detailed resilience-building process. The risk perception is concerns how an individual understands and experiences the phenomenon and believed to affect people’s preparedness for, responses to and recovery from natural disasters. Aims of this study are to identify the relationship between the community resilience elements such as community experience, community exposure, community reaction, community attitude, community knowledge and the community risk perception using survey gathered from 542 samples of Banda Aceh Province community, Aceh, Indonesia. Results found out there is a significant relationship between the community resilience elements such as community experience, community exposure, community reaction, community attitude, community knowledge and the community risk perception. Statistically, results confirm that the implementation of the community resilience elements such as community experience, community exposure, community reaction, community attitude, and community knowledge act as an important determinant of community risk perception towards disasters risk management at Banda Aceh Province community.

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Community Risk Perception on Healthcare Wastes in Hospitals and Health Centres of Eastern Ethiopia

Science Journal of Public Health ◽

10.11648/j.sjph.20150301.17 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 37 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tadesse Alemayehu

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Eastern Ethiopia ◽

Health Centres ◽

Community Risk

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Environmental Policies, Politics, and Community Risk Perception: Case Study of Community Contamination in Casper, Wyoming

NEW SOLUTIONS A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy ◽

10.2190/ns.17.4.i ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 345-361 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mansoureh Tajik ◽

Karen Gottlieb ◽

Nita Lowndes ◽

Gloria Stewart

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Environmental Policies ◽

Community Risk

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Community risk perception and health-seeking behavior in the era of COVID-19 among adult residents of Harari regional state, eastern Ethiopia

SAGE Open Medicine ◽

10.1177/20503121211036132 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. 205031212110361

Author(s):

Addis Eyeberu ◽

Dechasa Adare Mengistu ◽

Belay Negash ◽

Addisu Alemu ◽

Degu Abate ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Risk Perceptions ◽

Low Risk ◽

Healthcare Intervention ◽

Health Seeking ◽

Eastern Ethiopia ◽

Health Seeking Behavior ◽

Regional State ◽

Community Risk ◽

Seeking Behavior

Background: COVID-19 brought significant challenges to public health. It changed the view of global health and safety, trust in the healthcare system, and clients’ willingness to seek healthcare. To contain the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and its detrimental effects, understanding peoples’ health behavior, especially healthcare-seeking, and determining the community risk perception is very important. Thus, this study aimed to determine the health-seeking behavior, community’s risk perception to COVID-19 pandemics, and factors influencing the community risk perception in Harari regional state, Ethiopia. Methods: Community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from 5 to 30 February 2021. A total of 1320 adult (>18 years) participants were selected using systematic random sampling. The data were collected using an online kobo collect toolbox and analyzed using descriptive statistical tests. Chi-square test and multiple binary logistic regression were applied to examine the difference between variables. A p-value < 0.05 was considered to be of statistical significance. Results: The study included 1296 respondents >18 years old. The overall prevalence of willingness to seek healthcare in the study area was 35.6% (95% CI: 33%–38.3.0%). The mean cumulative score of risk perception was 30.5 (SD ± 7.25) with the minimum and maximum score of 13 and 63, respectively. A total of 656 (50.6%) of the participants had low-risk perceptions concerning COVID-19. The study found a statistically significant association between risk perception and sociodemographic characteristics (age, educational status, and income), and knowledge of the respondents. Conclusion: The overall prevalence of willingness to seek healthcare was 35.6%. Healthcare intervention aimed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic should consider the factors associated with the study area. Similarly, the study found a low-risk perception among the community that needs critical action to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and to protect the community as a whole. Thus, it is necessary to improve community risk perception through health education.

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