Environmental quality and well-being level in Turkey

Abstract

The environment is an indispensable dimension of human life and affects important concepts such as health, quality of life, life satisfaction, and well-being. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of environmental elements such as air quality, forest area, waste services, and noise pollution on the well-being in Turkey. The data of the research were obtained from the well-being index for the Provinces Study prepared by the Turkey Statistical Institute in 2015. A hierarchical multiple regression model was performed to predict the relationship between the environmental variables and well-being by using the Statistical Package for Social Science. Income and education level of provinces were controlled variables of model. At the end of analyses, it was found out that only forest area was positively related with well-being (β = 0.191, t = 2.369, p = 0.020), and there were no association between the air pollution, the noise problems, waste services, and dependent variable. The survey results are expected to provide important evidence-based information about an association between environment and well-being to policymakers and academicians on environmental health and public health.

Evidence for Environmental Noise Effects on Health for the United Kingdom Policy Context: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Environmental Noise on Mental Health, Wellbeing, Quality of Life, Cancer, Dementia, Birth, Reproductive Outcomes, and Cognition

“…Another study was identified from the recent Internoise 2019 conference [52] giving a total of 34 studies for consideration. Ten studies were excluded as they did not directly measure noise [20,21,[24][25][26][27]35,37], or because no associations between noise exposure and mental health were reported in the paper [29,32] (see Appendix A.2). This left 24 studies for inclusion in the review.…”

Sosyal Göstergeleri̇n Genel Mutluluk Üzeri̇ne Marji̇nal Etki̇leri̇

“…Contribution to economy decreased after stationarity at 2.80%. Adana became province of outflow emigration with an increase by 13% in 2017-2018(Karakuş, 2019. In the same year, there has been a regime change in Turkey and the Turkish Armed Forces has been involved in the war in Syria.…”

“…Human well-being has long been in the context of objective environment where people live. A historical evidence for indication of livable place comes from Hippocrates (Taşkaya, 2018). The neighbourhood and the city people live in influence well-being (Leyden et al, 2011) for which livability is described as precondition (Veenhoven, 2007).…”

Association between air quality satisfaction, family relationships, and depression symptoms among middle-aged and elderly chinese people: the mediation role of perceived health status

“…Depression symptoms are signs of emotional disorder, and are affected by family and environmental factors [12][13][14][15][16]. For example, Qianrong et al investigated 139 older couples and found that marital satisfaction of married men could decrease the depression score, suggesting that marital satisfaction was a considerable factor affecting depression in the older population [17].…”

“…For example, Bae's research demonstrated that perceived health status and family relationships were the most powerful and key predictors of depressive symptoms among elderly adults [35]. Perceived health status has also been regarded as a mediator of environmental pollution and health [37][38][39]. For example, Fan's study suggested that self-rated health played an important mediation role in the association between environmental pollution and subjective well-being [33].…”