Short report: Free-ranging chickens in households in a periurban shantytown in Peru - Attitudes and practices 10 years after a community-based intervention project

Martinez, Leonardo; Collazo, Gisela; Oberhelman, Richard; Cabrera, Lilia; Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio; Ramos-Peña, Yasnina

dc.contributor.author	Martinez, Leonardo
dc.contributor.author	Collazo, Gisela
dc.contributor.author	Cabrera, Lilia
dc.contributor.author	Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio
dc.contributor.author	Ramos-Peña, Yasnina
dc.contributor.author	Oberhelman, Richard
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-04T20:33:20Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-04T20:33:20Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/10759
dc.description.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.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
dc.relation.ispartofseries	American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject	Animals	en_US
dc.subject	attitude to health	en_US
dc.subject	human	en_US
dc.subject	Peru	en_US
dc.subject	questionnaire	en_US
dc.subject	poverty	en_US
dc.subject	Time Factors	en_US
dc.subject	urban population	en_US
dc.subject	cohort analysis	en_US
dc.subject	cultural factor	en_US
dc.subject	time	en_US
dc.subject	intervention study	en_US
dc.subject	Family Characteristics	en_US
dc.subject	human experiment	en_US
dc.subject	Poverty	en_US
dc.subject	family size	en_US
dc.subject	social status	en_US
dc.subject	agricultural management	en_US
dc.subject	animal husbandry	en_US
dc.subject	Animal Husbandry	en_US
dc.subject	chicken	en_US
dc.subject	Chickens	en_US
dc.subject	corralling	en_US
dc.subject	family assessment	en_US
dc.subject	poultry farming	en_US
dc.subject	sanitation	en_US
dc.subject	Sanitation	en_US
dc.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	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.12-0760
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.06
dc.relation.issn	1476-1645