environmental health literacy on preventing the health impacts from dust particulate matter of less than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) of village health volunteers in Nakhon Phanom Province

Abstract

     This research is a survey research with the objective of studying the level of environmental health Literacy on preventing health impacts from dust particulate  matter of less than 2.5 micromiters (PM2.5) and the related between personal factors to Literacy among  village health volunteers in Nakhon Phanom Province. by applying the Sorensen. K. et al concept of environmental health literacy (EHL). The sample group was 374 village health volunteers in Nakhon Phanom Province, selected by Multi-stage Random Sampling method. The tools used It's a questionnaire. The quality of the instrument was checked by finding content validity and finding reliability using the Cronbach method equal to .985. The data of this study were analyzed byusing descriptive statistics and Chi-square test,
     The results of this study were following: 1)  the Environmental health literacy was found to be overall at a moderate level and analysis of each area found that environmental health knowledge in decision making to prevent the impacts from dust particulate  matter was at a high level, followed by environmental health information checking. Understanding environmental health information and the aspect of accessing environmental health information which was at a moderate level.2) Correlation analysis found that gender was related to literacy in making decisions to prevent the impacts from PM2.5 dust. Age was related to literacy in understanding environmental health information. Inspection of environmental health information Decision-making to prevent the impact of PM2.5 dust and overall literacy The level of education is related to literacy in accessing environmental health information. Inspection of environmental health literacy and overall knowledge.