Environmental health awareness scale : a proposed model for Egypt as a developing country

Abstract EN

The Environmental health is has become the focus of interest of Scientists and Experts all over the world, especially after the recognition of the risk which earth is exposed to.

Despite the fact that the environmental health as a science and application does differentiate from one country to another, or from one place to another, the concepts of people do differ as a result of education level, behaviour, life style, standard of housing, health awareness, and the environmental understanding.

According to some customs and abnormal habits, some people in other regions regard environmental health as a common phenomenon.

This paper aims to put a measurable scale to explore how people understand environment awareness.

It is known that rural areas are different from urban, as well as agricultural areas are different from industrial ones.

So this suggested questionnaire as a model, is suitable for Egypt, as a developing country, it can be a suitable scale to measure the extent of population and administration offices understanding to environmental health awareness.

This suggested model is summarized in a number of questions, take the form of a questionnaire.

A random sample of population in rural, urban, and governmental offices will answer these questions.

These questions cover many customs and habits which relate to environmental health.

All questions have even marks, the total of these marks expresses the level of awareness and understanding of people to the environmental health.

The mean of cases can measure the environmental health awareness in rural or urban.

Through this questionnaire, we can observe the regional variations levels in Egypt.

Moreover this questionnaire can be used to compare one place to another, either in Upper Egypt or Delta.

However this questionnaire cannot be applied outside Egypt due to the differences in many factors related to cultural, educational, and life style levels.