Table 7.
Respondents' ratings of how participants in both communities’ report illnesses.
| Waterborne diseases | Living close to the dumpsites (CD) (<50 m) |
Living away from the dumpsites (AD) (50–300 m) |
Significance |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No diseases n (%) |
Diarrhea n (%) |
Dysentery n (%) |
No diseases n (%) |
Diarrhea n (%) |
Dysentery n (%) |
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| 32 (60.4) | 17 (32.1) | 4 (7.5) | 93 (73.23) | 29 (22.83) | 5 (3.94) | 0.090 | |||
| Airborne diseases | No diseases n (%) | Chest illness n (%) | Allergy n (%) | Asthma n (%) | No diseases n (%) | Chest related illness n (%) | Allergy n (%) | Asthma n (%) | |
| 22 (41.51) | 9 (16.98) | 16 (30.19) | 6 (11.32) | 92 (72.5) | 8 (6.3) | 23 (18.1) | 4 (3.1) | 0.009 | |