Environmental health knowledge, healthy lifestyles and better environmental living conditions among slum dwellers in Dhaka

Introduction: Millions of slum dwellers in cities suffer from higher burden of diseases partly because of stressful environmental living conditions (ELC), poor socio-economic status and lifestyles. We assessed the association of environmental health knowledge (EHK) with healthy lifestyles and ELC among adults (n=1,937) living in nine big slums of Dhaka megacity, assuming that better EHK is associated with healthy lifestyles and better ELC. Methods: The baseline information from a recent cohort study was used. Background: characteristics e.g. area, age, education, and migration including a composite variable (bas…