Table 4.
Demographic variables, sources of information, and climate change/health impacts | Knows about climate change | Climate change has an impact on human health | Climate change is a serious threat to human health | Is your department concerned about the prevention of health impacts of climate change? |
---|---|---|---|---|
|
OR(95% CI) |
OR(95% CI) |
OR(95% CI) |
OR(95% CI) |
Sex of the respondents | ||||
Male |
0.8(0.5–1.4) |
1.7(0.9–3.3) |
1.0(0.6–1.7) |
1.6(0.9–2.6) |
Female |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Do you know about climate change? | ||||
Yes |
|
14.1(5.1–38.6)* |
16.8(8.8–32.1)* |
7.3(2.8–18.8)* |
No |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Study year: | ||||
First |
0.9(0.4–2.3) |
2.9(1.0–8.3) |
0.9(0.3–2.1) |
1.2(0.5–2.9) |
Second |
1.2(0.5–3.0) |
1.8(0.7–4.8) |
1.5(0.6–4.0) |
1.2(0.5–3.0) |
Third |
0.8(0.3–2.2) |
1.8(0.6–5.2) |
0.6(0.2–1.6) |
1.3(0.5–3.4) |
Fourth |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Source of information | ||||
Electronic mass media |
- |
2.9(1.2–2.2)* |
1.5(0.5–4.2) |
4.3(1.6–11.7)* |
School |
- |
3.2(1.0–10.3) |
7.3(0.8–62.1) |
9.7(3.2–28.9)* |
Friends or neighbors |
|
5.1(0.6–44.0) |
1.1(0.2–6.1) |
2.6(0.6–11.3) |
Newspaper | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
*Statistically significance at 0.5 level.