Poverty and health among CDC plantation labourers in Cameroon: Perceptions, challenges and coping strategies.

ABSTRACT: Creating better access to good quality healthcare for the poor is a major challenge to development. In this study, we examined inter-linkages between poverty and disease, referred to as poverty-related diseases (PRDs), by investigating how Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) camp dwellers respond to diseases that adversely affect their health and wellbeing. Living in plantation camps is associated with poverty, overcrowding, poor sanitation and the rapid spread of diseases. In a survey of 237 CDC camp dwellers in Cameroon, we used the health belief model to understand the drivers (perceived threats, benefits and cues for treatment seeking) of reported responses. Using logistic regression analysis, we looked for trends in people's response to malaria. We calculated the odds ratio of fact

SUBMITTER: Makoge V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5714393 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature