CITIZENS HEALTH PROTECTION BEHAVIOUR AGAINST VECTOR BORN DISEASES IN GREECE: THE CASE OF XANTHI

• Main Authors: Lambros TSOURGIANNIS, Despoina CHATZIPANAGIOTOU, Loukas GEORGIOU, Kyriakos PAVLIDIS, Valentin DISLIAN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Publishing house of University of Pitesti, Romania 2016-11-01
• Series: Buletin ştiinţific: Universitatea din Piteşti. Seria Ştiinţe Economice
• Subjects: West Nile Virus; Consumers attitudes towards self-protection measures against mosquitoes; Buying behavior towards mosquito repellents
• Online Access: http://economic.upit.ro/repec/pdf/2016_2_3.pdf

During the period of 2012-2014 a West Nile Virus (WNV) outbreak occurred in the Regional District of Xanthi in Greece. As the self-protection measures are the most important for securing the public health this paper aims to explore the citizens buying behavior towards those measures, to classify them into groups and to profile each group accordingto their demographic characteristics. Age, education, number of children, number of family members, occupation and infection from WNV found to be significant related to people expenses towards self-protection measure. Moreover, people that have been infected from WNV have different demographic profile than those who have not being infected.