A GIS-based modeling of environmental health risks in populated areas of Port-au-prince, Haiti

• ABSTRACT
  
• 1. INTRODUCTION
  
• 2. LITERATURE REVIEW
  
  • 2.1 Risk
    
  • 2.2 Hazards
    
  • 2.3 Vulnerability
    
  • 2.4 Risk Assessment
    
  • 2.5 Hazard identification or delineation
    
  • 2.6 Environmental health factors
    
  • 2.7 Approaches to Vulnerability Assessment
    
  • 2.8 Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) and Weighted Linear Combination (WLC)
    
  • 2.9 Classification methods
    
• 3. METHODS
  
  • 3.1 Study Area
    
  • 3.2 Data collection
    
  • 3.3 Data limitation
    
  • 3.4 Construction of the model
    
    • 3.4.1 Process Overview
      
    • 3.4.2 Environmental Health Factors
      
    • 3.4.2.1 Air pollution from traffic
      
    • 3.4.2.2 Waste Pollution
      
    • 3.4.2.3 Public formal and informal market places
      
    • 3.4.2.4 Hospitals and the main cemetery
      
    • 3.4.2.5 Housing density
      
    • 3.4.2.6 Pollution from water bodies
      
    • 3.4.2.7 Proximity to the sea
      
    • 3.4.2.8 Proximity to high voltage power line
      
    • 3.4.3 Linear Combination of the Variables
      
    • 3.4.4 Classification Schemes
      
  • 3.5 Model's Summary
    
• 4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
  
  • 4.1 Results by Linear Combination Schemes
    
    • 4.1.1 Expert Opinion Survey, Equal Influence (Equal Weight), and Personalized Weightings
      
    • 4.1.2 The Maximum Weighting Scheme
      
  • 4.2 Comparison of the Classification Techniques
    
  • 4.3 Neighborhoods Exposed at High Risks
    
  • 4.4 Environmental Health Hazards
    
    • 4.4.1 Traffic Pollution
      
    • Waste Pollution
      
    • 4.4.3 Housing Density
      
    • 4.4.4 Pollution from Market Places
      
    • 4.4.5 Pollution water bodies
      
    • 4.4.6 Pollution from the coast
      
    • 4.4.7 Pollution from high voltage electric power
      
    • 4.4.8 Pollution from the hospitals
      
    • 4.4.9 Pollution from the cemetery
      
  • 4.5 Sensitivity analysis
    
    • Traffic Pollution Influence
      
    • Waste Pollution Influence
      
    • 4.5.3 Proportional Spatial Incidence of the factors
      
• 5 CONCLUSIONS
  
• APPENDIX A - TABLES
  
• APPENDIX B - FIGURES
  
• APPENDIX C - MODEL'S OUTLINE
  
• APPENDIX D - MODEL'S EXECUTION SCRIPT
  
• References