Water insecurity and emotional distress: coping with supply, access, and seasonal variability of water in a Bolivian squatter settlement.
Water insecurity and emotional distress: coping with supply, access, and seasonal variability of water in a Bolivian squatter settlement.
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水不安全和情绪困扰：应对玻利维亚棚户区的供水、获取和季节变化。
DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.042
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
K. Ragsdale
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作者：
Amber Wutich;K. Ragsdale
最近的研究表明，获得关键资源的不安全与消极的心理健康结果有关。其中许多研究侧重于农业、畜牧业和觅食社区的干旱和饥荒，并表明粮食不安全是水不安全和情绪困扰之间联系的中介。本研究是第一个系统地研究社区内的水不安全的模式在城市环境。2004-2005年，我们从玻利维亚的科恰班巴的一个棚户区Villa Israel随机抽取了72个户主进行访谈。我们研究了与水有关的情绪困扰在多大程度上与水不安全的三个方面有关：供水不足;无法充分获得水分配系统;依赖季节性水源，以及性别。我们发现，获得供水系统和女性性别与情绪困扰显着相关，而供水和依赖季节性水源则没有。经济资产，社会资产，水市场的权利，并有权互惠交换水的显着相关的情绪困扰，而应享有一个共同的水池水资源机构。这些结果表明，与水有关的情绪困扰的发展作为一个副产品的社会和经济谈判的人雇用获得水分配系统在没有明确的程序或既定的水权，而不是作为缺水本身的结果。
Recent research suggests that insecure access to key resources is associated with negative mental health outcomes. Many of these studies focus on drought and famine in agricultural, pastoral, and foraging communities, and indicate that food insecurity mediates the link between water insecurity and emotional distress. The present study is the first to systematically examine intra-community patterns of water insecurity in an urban setting. In 2004–2005, we collected interview data from a random sample of 72 household heads in Villa Israel, a squatter settlement of Cochabamba, Bolivia. We examined the extent to which water-related emotional distress is linked with three dimensions of water insecurity: inadequate water supply; insufficient access to water distribution systems; and dependence on seasonal water sources, and with gender. We found that access to water distribution systems and female gender were significantly associated with emotional distress, while water supply and dependence on seasonal water sources were not. Economic assets, social assets, entitlements to water markets, and entitlements to reciprocal exchanges of water were significantly associated with emotional distress, while entitlements to a common-pool water resource institution were not. These results suggest that water-related emotional distress develops as a byproduct of the social and economic negotiations people employ to gain access to water distribution systems in the absence of clear procedures or established water rights rather than as a result of water scarcity per se.