Community’s Informal Adaptation and Disease Risk Arrest

Abstract

Formal educated people are considered more aware of good and bad human health as comparedto informal education. Current study represents the unique findings favor of informal education in mitigatingthe human health effects due to water pollution. Village Motian in Pakistan is prone to the industrial wastewater contamination in the drinking water of community. Due to presence of bacterial coli (Escherichia coli), community is facingDiarrheal and Intestinal infection diseases. Theoretically health production function is used to find the association of contaminants and diseases. Forthe estimation of impact of this association, probit model is used. Two categories of households based on the primary data were surveyed. One who obtained formal school education and the other who participated in pollution awareness through informal channels. Results of the study proved that formal school education did not show any significant impact in mitigating the disease risk whereas informal ways of education showed the effective impacton the reduction and mitigation of the diseases. It is also recommended to the provincial government as part of policy to include pollution awareness in the formal education right from the primary education tier.

Keywords:  Drinking Water Contamination, Industrial Waste, Informal Awareness, Disease risk.