Validación del auto-reporte de la localización de residuos sólidos con análisis de Procusto en el contexto de una iniciativa comunitaria participativa

• Autor(a) principal: Pacheco-Magaña, Lilian E.
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Idrovo, Álvaro J., Arenas-Monreal, Luz, Cortez-Lugo, Marlene, Sánchez-Zamorano, Luisa M.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/5138
• topic: Ubicaciones Geográficas; Autoinforme; Estudios de Validación

This study is part of a community initiative for integrated solid waste management based on "popular epidemiology" and participatory action research. The study proposes a method for validation of spatial data (X and Y data) on solid waste reported by community members. Location of sites was conducted by 76 residents of the La Nopalera community (Yautepec, Morelos, Mexico) and compared with reports by three environmental health experts. Agreement was explored using Procrustes analysis. Experts identified 23 sites with abundant solid waste, while community members only identified 22 sites. There were minimal differences in location, scale, and positioning of reported waste. Procrustes statistics showed 95% agreement between community and expert reports. The findings suggest that community knowledge can be a valid source of information in epidemiological studies, and that measurement error can be quantified. The simple methodology described here can be used in further "popular epidemiology" studies or similar approaches.