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An Economic Analysis of Housing Environment and Health Status of Rural Households in Sivaganga District of Tamil Nadu


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1 Research Department of Economics, Alagappa Government Arts College, Karaikudi-630 003, India
 

Background/Objectives: The environmental is which people live greatly influences this health. A degraded environment means a lower quality of life, loss of productivity and higher health care costs. The world health organization has recently released profiles of environmental burden of disease for 192 countries and these country problems provide on estimate of the health impact from three major risk factors are unsafe water sanitation hygiene, Indoor air pollution from cooking fuel use and outdoor air pollution. India is totally home to one of the most degraded environmental in the world and is paying a very heavy health and economic price for it. In this context this study examines the impact of housing environment on the health status of the rural households in Sivaganga District is undertaken.

Methods: The required data for this study were selected from 120 rural households in Thiruppuvanam Block to get a sample of 40 households from each of these three selected villages giving an area sample of Thiruppuvanam Block in Sivaganga District in Tamil Nadu, India.

Findings: Sixty-three percent of the respondents in general stated that the household waste was disposed in roadside because the garbage was not collected properly from the corporation people. Three-fourths of the respondents perceived that the waste water gets disposed through street in general. Sixty-eight per cent of the respondents stated that there was mosquito trouble in the locality, which was spelled out more by the respondents from Good Housing Environment (89 %) followed by Fair Housing Environment (69 %) and Poor Housing Environment (48 %). It shows that the drainage facility in the locality was not sufficient in the study area. Correlation result confirms that, housing environment has favourable effect on the health status of children, adult and aged persons.

Application: It becomes necessary to focus the underprivileged areas such as rural and slums, and underprivileged segments of the population such as children and aged. Therefore, the households falling under this category should be brought to the notice of the concerned authorities of various socio-economic and health development programmes.


Keywords

Environment, Drainage, Garbage, Health Status, Karaikudi, Sivaganga.
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R. Hariharan
Research Department of Economics, Alagappa Government Arts College, Karaikudi-630 003, India

Abstract


Background/Objectives: The environmental is which people live greatly influences this health. A degraded environment means a lower quality of life, loss of productivity and higher health care costs. The world health organization has recently released profiles of environmental burden of disease for 192 countries and these country problems provide on estimate of the health impact from three major risk factors are unsafe water sanitation hygiene, Indoor air pollution from cooking fuel use and outdoor air pollution. India is totally home to one of the most degraded environmental in the world and is paying a very heavy health and economic price for it. In this context this study examines the impact of housing environment on the health status of the rural households in Sivaganga District is undertaken.

Methods: The required data for this study were selected from 120 rural households in Thiruppuvanam Block to get a sample of 40 households from each of these three selected villages giving an area sample of Thiruppuvanam Block in Sivaganga District in Tamil Nadu, India.

Findings: Sixty-three percent of the respondents in general stated that the household waste was disposed in roadside because the garbage was not collected properly from the corporation people. Three-fourths of the respondents perceived that the waste water gets disposed through street in general. Sixty-eight per cent of the respondents stated that there was mosquito trouble in the locality, which was spelled out more by the respondents from Good Housing Environment (89 %) followed by Fair Housing Environment (69 %) and Poor Housing Environment (48 %). It shows that the drainage facility in the locality was not sufficient in the study area. Correlation result confirms that, housing environment has favourable effect on the health status of children, adult and aged persons.

Application: It becomes necessary to focus the underprivileged areas such as rural and slums, and underprivileged segments of the population such as children and aged. Therefore, the households falling under this category should be brought to the notice of the concerned authorities of various socio-economic and health development programmes.


Keywords


Environment, Drainage, Garbage, Health Status, Karaikudi, Sivaganga.

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