caa a22 4500 467897921 CHVBK 20180406152809.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-005-3127-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-005-3127-y Rahman Atiqur Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, 110 025, New Delhi, India aut Assessing income-wise household environmental conditions and disease profile in urban areas: Study of an Indian city [Elektronische Daten] [Atiqur Rahman] The main objectives of the present study are: (i) to assess the income-wise household environmental conditions of the sampled households in Aligarh city, (ii) to examine income-wise disease profile of the population, (iii) to assess the relationship between income and four most occurring diseases, (iv) draw out inter-relationship between income, non-ideal household environmental conditions and environment related diseases. The quality of life and diseases in any urban areas get reflected by the immediate neighborhood in different parts of the city which depends upon the income strata of the households, their way of living, and their understanding of their household environment. This is because it is the household environment, which exerts the most and immediate influence on the life of the people. This study was carried out in order to assess household environmental conditions (i.e. housing conditions, bathroom and sanitation conditions, water supply conditions, water logging conditions, household garbage and solid waste, household pests, indoor air and indoor noise pollution) and their effect on the health of the resident population of Aligarh city. The method includes household survey of Aligarh city using questionnaires. The sampled households were classified into five income groups from very low to very high. Relationship was tested between income and household environmental conditions and also between income and diseases using Chi-Square technique. About 55% of the total sampled households suffer from diarrhea/dysentery, 43% jaundice, 42% malaria and 41% respiratory diseases. About 40% suffer from skin diseases, small pox/chicken pox. All these diseases are a result of poor household environmental conditions. Whereas 35% people reported other diseases (i.e. heart disease, hypertension and diabetes), only 14.42% households reported of tuberculosis. The study concludes that there exists a significant positive relationship between income level and household environmental conditions, and also between income and various diseases among sampled households of Aligarh city. Springer, 2006 disease profile nationallicence environmental conditions nationallicence households nationallicence income group nationallicence urban area nationallicence GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 65/3(2006-03-01), 211-227 0343-2521 65:3<211 2006 65 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-005-3127-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-005-3127-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rahman Atiqur Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, 110 025, New Delhi, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 65/3(2006-03-01), 211-227 0343-2521 65:3<211 2006 65 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer