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| Title |
Public perception of drinking water safety in South Africa 2002–2009: a repeated cross-sectional study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-556 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jim A Wright, Hong Yang, Ulrike Rivett, Stephen W Gundry |
| Abstract |
In low and middle income countries, public perceptions of drinking water safety are relevant to promotion of household water treatment and to household choices over drinking water sources. However, most studies of this topic have been cross-sectional and not considered temporal variation in drinking water safety perceptions. The objective of this study is to explore trends in perceived drinking water safety in South Africa and its association with disease outbreaks, water supply and household characteristics. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 130 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 127 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 28 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 19% |
| Researcher | 9 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 24 | 18% |
| Unknown | 28 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 23 | 18% |
| Engineering | 15 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 8% |
| Other | 28 | 22% |
| Unknown | 30 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 February 2013.
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#12,740,156
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#8,750
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#86,793
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#175
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