Perception of health challenges, self-rated health and feeling of empowerment in a changing climate and environment with permafrost thawing
Abstract Climate change is a global challenge which has direct and indirect health impacts on the lives of people and communities in the Arctic. The aim of our study was to evaluate the perception of permafrost thaw and health challenges and to determine which perceived environmental and adaptation...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe2023051243787 2023-07-30T03:59:38+02:00 Perception of health challenges, self-rated health and feeling of empowerment in a changing climate and environment with permafrost thawing Timlin, U. (Ulla) Kauppila, S. (Sofia) Jungsberg, L. (Leneisja) Nordström, T. (Tanja) Schmidt-Pedersen, K. (Kirsten) Kyngäs, H. (Helvi) Rautio, A. (Arja) 2021 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2023051243787 eng eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/773421/EU/Permafrost thaw and the changing arctic coast: science for socio-economic adaptation/Nunataryuk info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Arctic adaptation climate change empowerment health indigenous people permafrost thaw info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftunivoulu 2023-07-08T20:01:46Z Abstract Climate change is a global challenge which has direct and indirect health impacts on the lives of people and communities in the Arctic. The aim of our study was to evaluate the perception of permafrost thaw and health challenges and to determine which perceived environmental and adaptation factors relate to self-rated health and, more specifically, to feeling of empowerment when facing the changes and impacts of climate change and permafrost thawing. Questionnaire data (n = 100) were collected from one community located in Greenland, Disko Bay. Data were analyzed by cross-tabulation and the significances were tested either by Pearson’s χ2 test, Fisher’s exact test or by the t-test, when applicable. Based on these analyses, logistic and linear regression analyses were used to evaluate the associations between demographic variables, challenges posed by permafrost thaw and self-rated health, and associations between feeling of empowerment and perceived environmental/adaptation factors. The results indicated that climate change was not assessed as being a direct risk for the health of local people or their feeling of empowerment. Nature seemed to play an important role for local people, and not being in the natural environment for recreational activities seemed to decrease feeling of empowerment (OR 0.42, p = 0.042, 95% CI 0.17–0.97). This paper provides new, multidisciplinary research information about the perception of health challenges, health, and feeling of empowerment among people living in an environment impacted by permafrost thaw and climate change. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change Disko Bay Greenland permafrost Jultika - University of Oulu repository Arctic Greenland |
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Abstract Climate change is a global challenge which has direct and indirect health impacts on the lives of people and communities in the Arctic. The aim of our study was to evaluate the perception of permafrost thaw and health challenges and to determine which perceived environmental and adaptation factors relate to self-rated health and, more specifically, to feeling of empowerment when facing the changes and impacts of climate change and permafrost thawing. Questionnaire data (n = 100) were collected from one community located in Greenland, Disko Bay. Data were analyzed by cross-tabulation and the significances were tested either by Pearson’s χ2 test, Fisher’s exact test or by the t-test, when applicable. Based on these analyses, logistic and linear regression analyses were used to evaluate the associations between demographic variables, challenges posed by permafrost thaw and self-rated health, and associations between feeling of empowerment and perceived environmental/adaptation factors. The results indicated that climate change was not assessed as being a direct risk for the health of local people or their feeling of empowerment. Nature seemed to play an important role for local people, and not being in the natural environment for recreational activities seemed to decrease feeling of empowerment (OR 0.42, p = 0.042, 95% CI 0.17–0.97). This paper provides new, multidisciplinary research information about the perception of health challenges, health, and feeling of empowerment among people living in an environment impacted by permafrost thaw and climate change. |
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Timlin, U. (Ulla) Kauppila, S. (Sofia) Jungsberg, L. (Leneisja) Nordström, T. (Tanja) Schmidt-Pedersen, K. (Kirsten) Kyngäs, H. (Helvi) Rautio, A. (Arja) |
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Timlin, U. (Ulla) Kauppila, S. (Sofia) Jungsberg, L. (Leneisja) Nordström, T. (Tanja) Schmidt-Pedersen, K. (Kirsten) Kyngäs, H. (Helvi) Rautio, A. (Arja) |
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Perception of health challenges, self-rated health and feeling of empowerment in a changing climate and environment with permafrost thawing |
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Perception of health challenges, self-rated health and feeling of empowerment in a changing climate and environment with permafrost thawing |
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Perception of health challenges, self-rated health and feeling of empowerment in a changing climate and environment with permafrost thawing |
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Perception of health challenges, self-rated health and feeling of empowerment in a changing climate and environment with permafrost thawing |
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Perception of health challenges, self-rated health and feeling of empowerment in a changing climate and environment with permafrost thawing |
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perception of health challenges, self-rated health and feeling of empowerment in a changing climate and environment with permafrost thawing |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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