Knowledge and management of WEEE by independent repairers in the city of Bouake in a context of health and environmental risk, 2022

Studies on waste management in Côte d'Ivoire are mostly focused on household and solid waste. It is appropriate to take a sustained look at the management of electrical and electronic equipment waste to better guide policies in this area. This work is a cross-sectional study covering the period from April 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022. The aim was to determine the knowledge and practices of the independent electrical and electronic repairers of the city of Bouaké in terms of electrical and electronic equipment waste (WEEE) management. A comprehensive sample of 307 people was interviewed by means of a questionnaire. The repairers interviewed had already heard of WEEE in 47.2% of cases. They had a good level of knowledge of WEEE in 85.5% of cases. In the final model in multivariate analysis, only the possession of a radio set at home had a significant influence on knowledge of WEEE. Repairers were unaware of the existence of D3E management legislation in 60.7% of cases; apart from humans (84.8%) who were most exposed to the dangers of inappropriate management of WEEE, other entities (air, soil, water, animals) would be polluted according to 36.6, 35.2, 4.1, and 3.4% of repairers, respectively. The most feared type of harm reported is injury (95.65%). Subjects dumped WEEE in a municipal landfill in 32.4% of cases. Sale, empowerment of pre-collection agents, and handing over to a recycling professional, cumulatively represent the most common practice (66.9%).

Pression arterielle pulsee elevee comme facteur de risque d'insuffisance cardiaque chez le sujet age (noir africain)

Objectif : Il s'agissait de mettre en evidence le role pronostique de la pression pulsee elevee dans la survenue d'insuffisance cardiaque chez le sujet age Noir Africain. Population et methode : Dans un travail retrospectif portant sur 2000 patients admis a l'Institut de cardiologie d'Abidjan de 1991 a 2011; Nous avions apparie les facteurs de risques cardio-vasculaires; susceptibles d'entrainer de facon significative une insuffisance cardiaque chez le sujet age noir africain. Neuf facteurs ont ete prise en compte: l'age; le sexe; le diabete; le tabac; la dyslipidemie; l'obesite et le stress; les hypertensions arterielles moyenne et pulsee. Resultats : Les patients a PP elevee ont deux fois plus de risque de presenter une insuffisance cardiaque de type diastolique que ceux ayant une pression pulsee normale (Khi2= 207; 91 dd=1 P 0; 05 OR