Health Impact of People from a Quarry Mining in Ban Pae Sub-district, Chom Thong District, Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

This study is a cross-sectional study, has objective to study health impact in 4 dimensions including physical, mental, social and spiritual of the people from a quarry mining in Ban Pae Sub-district, Chom Thong District, Chiang Mai Province. Consisted of 6 villages affected which are Moo 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 19. Select sample group amount 310 households by using Taro Yamane formula. Collect data by using questionnaire learner creates from reviewing related papers and researches through examining content validity from 3 scholars with acceptable consistency value of 0.67. Checking for confidence by using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient obtain confidence value equal to 0.85. Using descriptive statistics which are frequency distribution, percentile, mean, standard deviation. Using inferential statistics including Mann-Whitney U Test and Kruskal-Wallis Test with significant at .05.

The results of study were: Health effects Overall, all aspects were at a moderate level of 36.57 percent. When comparing the average scores of the 4 dimensions of health impacts of the sample groups. The distance between the residence and the stone mill, self-defense behavior from dust and compensation from stone mill operators, have an impact on health differed statistically. Other personal factors such as gender, age, status, occupation, educational level, etc., were not statistically significantly different.

This study result can be a guideline for department involved to use data in decision making in order to plan for solving health problems and a guideline in setting local policies to lessen the impact from quarry mining to local residents who are affected further.