Social inequality, noise pollution, and quality of life of slum dwellers in Pokhara, Nepal.

IF 1.4 4区医学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-12-23 DOI:10.1080/19338244.2020.1860880

Eunhwa Choi, Tulsi Ram Bhandari, Niranjan Shrestha

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Abstract

This work is a cross-sectional comparative study conducted on 528 residents in the slum and non-slum areas of Pokhara, Nepal. Of the total number of respondents, 90.2% in the slums and 63.3% in the non-slums indicated the existence of a main source of noise, and 80.7% in the slums and 66.0% in the non-slums replied that they had been highly annoyed by noise. The indoor noise levels measured for 24 h were higher in slums than in non-slums, ranging from 59 to 78 dBA and from 51 to 69 dBA, respectively. The Mann-Whitney U test showed a significantly poorer status of slum dwellers in four health domains. Logistic regression analysis identified that living in a slum was a significant predictor (OR, 2.35; 95% CI, 1.35-4.09) of a low level of health. Meanwhile, a high level of noise annoyance was a good determinant (OR, 6.71; 95% CI, 3.13-14.36) of low quality of life among slum dwellers revealing a distinguishing negative effect of the high level of noise annoyance in the slum areas.

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尼泊尔博卡拉贫民窟居民的社会不平等、噪音污染和生活质量。

这项工作是对尼泊尔博卡拉贫民窟和非贫民窟地区的528名居民进行的横断面比较研究。在所有受访者中，90.2%的贫民窟居民和63.3%的非贫民窟居民表示存在主要噪声源，80.7%的贫民窟居民和66.0%的非贫民窟居民回答说他们对噪音非常恼火。在24小时内，贫民窟的室内噪声水平高于非贫民窟，分别为59 ~ 78 dBA和51 ~ 69 dBA。曼-惠特尼U测试显示，贫民窟居民在四个健康领域的状况明显较差。Logistic回归分析发现，居住在贫民窟是显著的预测因子(OR, 2.35;95%可信区间(1.35-4.09)表明健康水平较低。同时，高水平的噪音烦恼是一个很好的决定因素(OR, 6.71;95% CI, 3.13-14.36)表明贫民窟居民的生活质量较低，这表明贫民窟地区高水平的噪音烦恼具有明显的负面影响。

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Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health 环境科学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

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3.70

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期刊介绍： Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health , originally founded in 1919 as the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, and perhaps most well-known as the Archives of Environmental Health, reports, integrates, and consolidates the latest research, both nationally and internationally, from fields germane to environmental health, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure assessment, modeling and biostatistics, risk science and biochemistry. Publishing new research based on the most rigorous methods and discussion to put this work in perspective for public health, public policy, and sustainability, the Archives addresses such topics of current concern as health significance of chemical exposure, toxic waste, new and old energy technologies, industrial processes, and the environmental causation of disease such as neurotoxicity, birth defects, cancer, and chronic degenerative diseases. For more than 90 years, this noted journal has provided objective documentation of the effects of environmental agents on human and, in some cases, animal populations and information of practical importance on which decisions are based.