Amid the recent growing local community interest in environmental health fields such as climate change and COVID-19, a survey found that the risk factor that Jeonbuk residents are most anxious about is "air pollutants."
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This is in accordance with an online survey conducted by Jeollabuk-do Province by proportional allocation of 815 provincial residents to establish a regional-led environmental health plan.
According to Jeollabuk-do Province on the 20th, the online survey was conducted online using a structured questionnaire on environmental health policy awareness and major issues by allocating the number of samples according to the population of 14 cities and counties in the province.
70.7% of the respondents answered air pollutants, 62.6% answered heavy metals (waste water, soil, food), and 60.9% answered climate change, respectively, to questions about environmental health issues and anxiety (redundant responses).
This response tendency of provincial residents is considered to be significantly affected by the recent abnormal weather such as heavy rain, heavy snow, and heat waves, while thinking that risk factors in the environmental health sector are scattered around everyday life.
Environmental health awareness was also ranked first with 28.5 percent of respondents pointing to air pollutants (fine dust, ozone, etc.), followed by 27.9 percent of climate change (hot waves, cold waves, etc.), and 16.6 percent of environmental hormones (additives, plastic, etc.).
Environmental disease awareness showed that atopic dermatitis (34.7%) was most affected by environmental factors, followed by allergic rhinitis (25%).
Lead (62.6%), asbestos (62.5%), and radon (57.7%) were the most suspected substances that cause environmental diseases.
However, only 37.9% of the respondents said they were "knowing" about the link between environmental diseases and suspicious substances recorded an unexpectedly low level of awareness.
The most serious environmental problems facing Jeonbuk were air pollutants (26%), climate change and global warming (21.2%).
27.2% of respondents said preventive management of newly emerging environmental hazards such as artificial light, radon, and microplastics was the first environmental health policy to be pursued by Jeollabuk-do, followed by management of environmentally sensitive and vulnerable areas (24.2%).
Meanwhile, Jeollabuk-do plans to implement the first Jeollabuk-do Environmental Health Plan by the end of the year, reflecting the results of the survey on the environmental health field of Jeollabuk-do residents.
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