Health Impact Assessment of Communities Surround Landfill Site of Sukhothaithani Municipality, Sukhothai Province

Abstract

This research aims to study environmental impacts and both positive and negative of physical, mental and social health impacts in communities near landfill site of Sukhothaithani Municipality, Sukhothai province. The population investigated the representatives of 208 affected households by simple random sampling. Questionnaire was used as research tool. The results found that most people expressed the opinion that the current environment, physical health, mental health and social health of them are the same as in the past 5-10 years, 59.6%, 95.2%, 90.4% and 90.4%, respectively. The overview negative impact on environment, physical health, mental health and social health in communities were at the low level with = 1.20±0.36, 1.01±0.28, 1.41±0.67 and 0.51±0.13, respectively.