Title
Short report: Free-ranging chickens in households in a periurban shantytown in Peru - Attitudes and practices 10 years after a community-based intervention project
Date Issued
01 August 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Martinez L.
Collazo G.
Ramos-Peña Y.
Oberhelman R.
Abstract
Free-ranging chickens are often found in periurban communities in developing countries, and their feces can pose a significant public health sanitation problem. Corralling chickens raised in these periurban areas in chicken coops has been proposed previously as an intervention to address this problem. Aims of this study were to revisit households in a corralling intervention study conducted in 2000-2001 to compare poultry-raising practices and investigate current attitudes regarding the impact of raising chickens in a periurban environment. Sociobehavioral questionnaires were given sequentially to all study participants; 30 families (58%) ceased raising poultry of any kind, whereas 42 (81%) do not raise chickens in their home. This finding indicates a significant reduction in poultry-raising in our study population since 2000-2001, possibly because of acculturation and/or change in socioeconomic status. However, attitudes about corral use for raising poultry were overwhelmingly positive, and the most common reason cited was cleanliness of the home. Copyright © 2013 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Start page
229
End page
231
Volume
89
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84881540086
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ISSN of the container
00029637
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