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Record W2138566462 · doi:10.1111/cag.12169

Examining the public health implications of drinking water–related behaviours and perceptions: A face‐to‐face exploratory survey of residents in eight coastal communities in British Columbia and Nova Scotia

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Heather Castleden, Valorie A. Crooks, Ilja van Meerveld

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicChild Nutrition and Water Access
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser UniversityQueen's University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaSimon Fraser UniversityDalhousie University
KeywordsNova scotiaPublic healthWater qualityGeographyEnvironmental healthEconomic shortageRisk perceptionWater scarcityPerceptionEnvironmental planningPsychologyMedicineNursingEcology

Abstract

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In Canada the quality of drinking water and its availability are a reflection of where one lives. Coastal communities, which are particularly susceptible to boil water advisories, present an understudied opportunity to understand drinking water–related behaviours and perceptions. How public health practitioners determine actions needed to prevent water‐borne illness is a key factor in the public adopting messaging and/or employing behavioural change. This study involved face‐to‐face surveys with residents in eight coastal communities in British Columbia and Nova Scotia. All communities had recent histories of boil water advisories and/or water shortages. The findings have significant implications for public health practice seeking to reduce the incidence of water‐borne diseases. For example, the respondents had a limited sense of risk of exposure to water‐borne illness. This serves as a challenge for public health professionals who are tasked with educating residents about the health benefits and risks associated with drinking tap water, wherein coastal residents not concerned with water quality/availability may view this information as unnecessary. Generally, obtaining a deep understanding of place‐based knowledge around health‐related issues, as done here, has the potential to impact future policy and management‐level decisions and lead to meaningful integration of local perspectives. Une exploration des conséquences pour la santé publique des comportements et perceptions liés à l'eau potable : une enquête exploratoire réalisée en face à face auprès de résidents de huit communautés côtières de la Colombie‐Britannique et de la Nouvelle‐Écosse Au Canada, la qualité de l'eau potable et sa disponibilité dépendent du lieu de résidence. Les communautés côtières, qui sont particulièrement visées par des avis d'ébullition de l'eau, fournissent une occasion d'apporter un nouvel éclairage sur les comportements et les perceptions liés à l'eau potable. La manière par laquelle les praticiens de la santé publique établissent quelles actions sont requises pour prévenir les maladies hydriques est déterminante tant pour l'adhésion du public aux messages que pour les changements de comportement. L'étude s'appuie sur une enquête réalisée en face à face auprès de résidents de huit communautés côtières de la Colombie‐Britannique et de la Nouvelle‐Écosse. L'ensemble des communautés a été touché récemment par un avis d'ébullition de l'eau ou des pénuries d'eau. Des conséquences importantes pour la pratique de la santé publique visant à réduire l'incidence des maladies hydriques peuvent être tirées des résultats de l'étude. Par exemple, les répondants sous‐estimaient l'existence du risque d'être exposé aux maladies hydriques. Cela pose un défi aux professionnels de la santé publique dont le mandat consiste à sensibiliser les résidants sur les bienfaits et les risques pour la santé de consommer l'eau potable du robinet, notamment quand les résidents côtiers ne se préoccupent ni de la qualité ni de la disponibilité de l'eau et peuvent même juger que ces informations sont inutiles. Posséder une solide connaissance des savoirs locaux sur les questions entourant la santé, comme on le fait ici, peut exercer une influence sur les décisions en matière de politique et de gestion à venir et conduire à une véritable intégration des perspectives locales.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.059
Threshold uncertainty score0.118

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.000
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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