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Importance of Social- and Health-Related Problems: Do Spaniards Give Them the Significance They Actually Deserve?
Cristina EstebanMacarena TortosaFrancisco AlonsoAndrea Sergesubject
AdultMalemedicine.medical_specialtyHealth Knowledge Attitudes Practicenoncommunicable diseasesHealth Toxicology and MutagenesisPsychological interventionlcsh:Medicinecommunicable diseasesSocial issuesArticleLikert scale03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)medicineHumans030212 general & internal medicineMass Mediasocial problemMass media030505 public healthbusiness.industrySeguretat viàriaPublic healthlcsh:Rpublic healthPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthAccidents TrafficMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseTest (assessment)Cross-Sectional Studiesroad traffic injuriesSpainTerrorismFemaleTerrorism0305 other medical sciencebusinessPsychologyDemographydescription
Social and health problems imply an impact on society. The main objective of this study is to provide an overview of how Spanish people perceive cancer, terrorism, cardiovascular diseases, crime, AIDS, drugs, and traffic accidents, finding out whether they assess the importance of these issues in correspondence with their actual severity. The study used a full sample of 1206 Spaniards (51.6% females and 48.4% males) who responded to a computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) survey on the significance of these social and health-related problems, assessed through a zero to ten Likert scale. The perceived severity of the problems was considered taking into account the official data of deaths reported by governmental institutions. For the comparison of mean values, the One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test was used. Results show high average values for all the problems. The most concerning elements are cancer (M = 9.28 ±
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-24 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |