Quality of Life and Pollution Sources in the Higueras River Basin in Huánuco

Melecio Paragua-Morales, Antonio Salustio Cornejo y Maldonado, Carlos Bustamante-Ochoa, Miguel Alfredo Carrasco-Muñoz, Reynaldo Marcial Ostos-Miraval, Cecilia Vilma Martínez-Morales, Nicéforo Bustamante-Paulino

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Abstract

The purpose of the study was to verify that there was a high and positive relationship between the sources of pollution and the quality of life of the inhabitants of the Higueras river basin, Huánuco 2022; For this, a correlational type research and non-experimental design was developed; we worked with a sample of 221 neighbors per district; The data was collected with a test evaluated and designed with four dimensions for the first variable; the instrument to collect data for the second variable was designed without dimensions and with ten items; In the processing of the data, simple linear regression statistics were used, obtaining the following result and conclusion: Ho is rejected since 0.9259≥0.164, and it is concluded that there is a high positive relationship between the sources of contamination and the quality of life in the inhabitants of Las Higueras. River Basin, Huanuco 2022.; concluding that the determination of the sources of contamination has a high explanatory power on the quality of life in the inhabitants of the Higueras river basin, Huánuco 2022.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)613-625
Number of pages13
JournalMigration Letters
Volume20
StatePublished - 2023

Keywords

  • Pollution sources
  • Quality of life
  • ecosystem services

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