Table 3.

Cultural salience scores of environmental threats by region.

	Metro (n = 11)		Rural (n = 9)
Item	Smith’s salience	Salience segment rank	Smith’s salience	Salience segmented rank
Hurricanes	0.34	3	0.59	1
Violence in community	0.58	1	0.27	3
Outdoor air pollution	0.34	2	0.20	9
Indoor air pollution	0.24	5	0.22	6
Cigarette smoke	0.13	11	0.34	2
Drug activity in community	0.32	4	0.08	28
Bad/reckless drivers in community	0.17	8	0.18	10
Lack of activities for children	0.08	14	0.22	5
Floods	0.18	6	0.09	22
Problems with other mothers in the community	0.04	31	0.23	4