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

Bilesha Perera, Truls Østbye and Chandramali Jayawardana
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Bilesha Perera: Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka
Truls Østbye: Duke Medical Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Chandramali Jayawardana: Faculty of Applied Sciences, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Belihuloya, Sri Lanka

IJERPH, 2009, vol. 6, issue 8, 1-11

Abstract: The prevalenceof 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.

Keywords: environment; neighborhood; stressors; self-rated health; Sri Lanka; ecology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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