A Carbon Footprint of Medical Faculties in B J Medical College, Ahmedabad City, Gujarat, India
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 6
Abstract
Introduction: A Carbon footprint measures human consumption of natural resources in comparison to Earth's ecological capacity to regen-erate them. It represents the human impact on the Earth in a clear man-ner. Material & methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among faculty members of B.J Med-ical College & Hospital Ahmeda-bad, Gujarat, India. The study was conducted in month of June to Oc-tober 2011. Study Participants in-cluded 125 medical doctors of dif-ferent departments of the college and hospital interviewed by pre-designed and a pre-tested ques-tionnaire. Coded data were ana-lyzed in Epi info version 3.5.1. Per-centages have been presented. Results: Male: female ratio 56:44.Their carbon foot-print was poor because 88% of them didn’t use share-based vehicles or public transport. Only 5.6% had solar de-vices at home. Housing-footprint was good as 100% of them used water-saving-techniques at home. Use of elevator (40.6%) was found common. 62.4% never used organic food. Goods & service foot-print was poor; only 13.6% didn’t use plastic bags on daily basis. 23.2% never bothered about usage of mo-bile phones, 12.8% were not interested in tree-plantation.
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Monark Vyas, Rajshree Bhatt
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