Assessment knowledge and attitude of academic university staff regarding health effect of global warming

Abstract

Global warming is a changing in climate which observed by rising the temperature of earth climate system. The climate changes are quietly related to global warming and both of them are represented the first necessary global health problem in the recent decade. The study was done to assess the academic university staff knowledge and attitude regarding effect of Global warming on human health and productivity. A descriptive crosssectional study was conducted on scientific departments in KirkukTechnical Institute from the period of 1 st April 2016 till the end of June 2016 and (140) university staff were conducted (60 from the technical depts., 50 from administrative depts., and the remaining 30 staff from health depts. ) .A special designed questionnaire form was distributed to them after receiving their written consent and the data was collected by direct interviewing with them .The study show that 64.3% of study teachers agreed with the main causes of global atmosphere was due to much smoke from exhaust pipe of cars leading to environmental pollution and more than half of them considered the main adverse effects of global warming is the easily spreading of the diseases. Teachers attitude regarding global warming definition was above cutoff point(2.1) and low regarding factors contributing to global warming and health effects (1.7, 1.9) respectively. Further advanced educational program is needed to increase public awareness