Covid-19 Perception of the pandemic and the importance of barrier measures by the fruit and vegetables sellers of Port-au-Prince

Institut Supérieur de Formation, Recherche et Innovation en Education (INNOVED) / Université Quisqueya
28/02/2021
Article publié dans une revue avec comité de lecture

Abstract

Covid-19 has triggered an unprecedented crisis that not only concerns health, it is also an economic, social, political and possibly humanitarian crisis. In March 2020, the WHO declared the disease to be pandemic and recommended the application of barrier measures. The research question here is to establish the level of social perception of fruit and vegetable sellers of the application of barrier measures in Haiti. This study was based on a mainly qualitative approach. A survey was carried out on a random sample of 50 fruit and vegetable sellers, a vulnerable social category of the metropolitan region of Port-au-Prince (RMPP). 98% of the population studied were women; 92% of them came from rural areas. Only 4% of the respondents declared that they practiced physical distancing versus 96% who declared that they were not able to practice it, or place one of their family members in quarantine. It appears pertinent to grasp, in future, the perception of COVID-19 by the Haitian population on the basis of a comparative approach that places several social classes and several economic activities in the contexts of their respective situations.

Domaine(s) de Recherche: Évaluation des risques sanitaires / Risques sanitaires / Sciences humaines et sociales

Mots-clefs

• covid-19
• health measure
• social perception
• fruit and vegetable sellers
• metropolitan region of Port-au-Prince