Investigating Citizens’ Perceptions about the Status of Health, Safety and Environment in the City of Yazd (District 2)
Rapid population growth and its focus on cities have affected the lives of people; and poverty, environmental degradation, pollution, lack of utilities, the decline of existing infrastructure, and lack of access to land and adequate shelter are the crises related to this issue. Cities as a centralization of people’s activities and human’s life do not have any choice except to accept the structure and function of system of health to ensure their sustainability; so the system of health, safety and the environment will be effective as an integrated system to manage urban. The aim of this study is to survey and determine people’s point of view about health, safety and environment issues of cities they live in. Ultimately the results are used for favourable urban management and improving health, safety and environment criteria of the second district in Yazd city. Therefore, after determining the factors affecting health, safety and environment of the city through library studies and previous activities carried out, to get the citizens’ opinion the questionnaire was used and the results were analyzed by SPSS. Results show that people’s point of view about desirable criterion environmental indices is 64%, about desirable criterion health indices is 66.4% and about desirable criterion safety indices is 67.4%.
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