Perception of the Environmental Pollution of the Torocochariver in the Health of the Population Living in Areas Surrounding the City of Juliaca-Peru

Abstract

The objective of the research was to determine the variables that explain the perception of environmental pollution of the Torococha river on human health, for which the non-experimental methodological design, descriptive-correlal, was used, applying surveys to a household member for data collection, the logit model was used. The variables that explain the perception of environmental pollution of the Torocochariver on people's health are the distance to which it lives from the river and the degree of pollution of the river. It was determined that if people live a greater distance from the river, then the likelihood that the person perceives that the pollution of the river affects their health decreases by 4.28%; wheree's if the degree of river pollution increases at a level, then the likelihood that the river's pollution affects their health increases by 7.20%.