Mohtar, Muhd Hafiz (2017) Knowledge, perception, aspiration, respiratory and dermal health impact among school teachers in bauxite mining area of Felda Bukit Goh, Kuantan. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Introduction: Bauxite is an aluminium ore and the world's main source of aluminium. Malaysia had been supplied 1.27 million tonnes of bauxite to China in the first nine months of 2016, 12 times more than the 105,000 tonnes shipped in the same period for 2013. Extensive and uncontrolled mining activities have great potentials to cause adverse impacts on the environment, health and quality of life of the people living in the affected areas. Mining activities of bauxite have lots of environmental and health impacts. Bauxite mining activities can affect the environment and health of the community. These are the consequences of faulty operational methods resulting in pollution of the environment. Objective: To assess knowledge, perception, aspiration and health impact of school teachers in bauxite mining area of Felda Bukit Goh, Kuantan. Methodology: A cross-sectional study design and universal sampling method was used. A self-administered questionnaire was used as a study instrument to collect the data. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 21.0. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the sample. Chi square test was used to determine association between dependent and independent variable . A p value :'.S 0.05 wa considered as statically significant in this study. For environmental sampling Gillian personal sampling pump was used for air sampling to check the weight of particulate matter (PM,o) and ICP-MS for selected heavy metals. Result: A total of 105 school teachers involved in the study and majority of the respondents were female and age between 23 - 60 years old. It is found that 95.2% of the school teachers had high level of knowledge on bauxite mining. From the finding, it is found that there is significant association between health symptom reported with sociodemographic factors (income) (x2=0.030; p=0.027). Next, it is found that there is significant association between health symptom reported with perception (x2= 5.444; p=0.020). Lastly, finding indicated no significant relationship between health symptoms with PM1 0 (0.900) and selected heavy metal level, Aluminum (0.985), Arsenic (0.418), ickel, Chromium (0.208) and Cadmium (0.548). Conclusion: This study found most of school teachers had high level of knowledge on bauxite mining and also have bad perception on this activity. The overall results of PM1o showed the concentration in each sampling points not exceeded the Malaysian Ambient Air Quality Guidelines (MAAQG 2015) limit which is 150 µg/m3 for 24 hours exposure (p<0.001) but the selected heavy metal i, Cr and Cd concentration exceed the standard (A TSDR). The combined effects of the problems have not culminated into serious health problems despite the surrounding community high prevalence of health complaints such as respiratory problem and kin problem among the community.
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
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| Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| Depositing User: | Ms Norafizah Radzuan |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2024 03:22 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2024 03:22 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/2010 |
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