ABSTRACT The study investigated the dynamics of poverty among rural active population in Mangu Local Government of Plateau State The ob1ect1ves of the study were to determine the socio-demographic and economic characteristics of the respondents; the incidence and spatial distribution of poverty and the causes of poverty in the study area. The study also intended to assess the pattern of poverty trajectory of the rural active population in the study area and the coping strategies/mechanisms e...
ABSTRACT The current impact of climate variability highlights the need for an increased understanding of the relationship between climate-sensitive disasters such as floods, vulnerability, and adaptation/coping strategies of households. With few exceptions, given the variations in sociodemographic and economic characteristics, floods tend to have a disproportionate impact on resource-poor urban communities, particularly in developing countries. This study aimed to; (1) identify indicators of...
ABSTRACT In 2015, approximately 1.8 in million children under 15 years of age were living with HIV with an estimated 150,000 newly infected mainly through Mother-to-Child Transmission while 110,000 died of HIV/AIDS related causes. In East and Southern Africa region, approximately one million children were living with HIV with 56,000 newly infected and 47,000 due to AIDS-related illnesses in the same year. Although Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) and immunization services for HIV-Exposed infant...
ABSTRACT The burden of diabetes is reflected not only in the increasing numbers of people with diabetes, but also in the growing numbers of premature deaths due to diabetes. One measure of burden of disease is disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), which combines estimates of years of life lost due to premature death (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD) to count the total years of healthy life lost from disease and injury. In Kenya, NonCommunicable Diseases (NCDs) accounts for more t...
ABSTRACT Postpartum care is an important link in the continuum of care for maternal health. The postpartum period is critical because most maternal deaths occur during this time, yet this is the most neglected period for quality care provision. Postpartum Care (PPC) services are essential in the first six weeks extending to six months. When not offered they lead to complications, poor outcomes like morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to assess utilization and factors influencin...
ABSTRACT Declines in world’s fertility over the last three decades have been termed by scholars and demographers as the most notable demographic change. Fertility stall has been in Kenya coming after decades of very high levels of fertility. Inconsistent with the national demographics, Murang’a County recorded an abnormal age sex pyramid during the 2009 national census. This thesis focuses on the proximate determinants of Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Murang’a County. This thesis presen...
ABSTRACT Children affected by HIV and AIDS (CAHA) are faced with psychological, social and economic challenges among others. HIV and AIDS has compounded the situation posing more suffering to children whose parents have died of the same. Children affected by HIV and AIDS have been supported in various ways by their extended families and many other organizations. While there are a number of programmes that address the material needs of CAHA, there is less emphasis in assisting these children ...
ABSTRACT The Ghana School Feeding Programme is a social intervention to provide deprived pupils in public basic schools one hot nutritious meal a day. The study seeks to find the extent the programme has impacted on academic achievement of pupils. The study was carried out in six basic schools that are participating in the GSFP in the Tema Metropolis. The study combined both secondary and primary data for the investigation. Both primary and secondary data were used for the analysis. Ghana Sc...
ABSTRACT Malaria threatens the lives of billions of people globally and leads to over one million deaths annually (WHO 2010). More than 90 per cent of the clinical cases and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa are caused by malaria (WHO 2011). Malaria kills an estimated one million children under five years of age per year or one child in every 30 seconds. Malaria is hyper-endemic in Ghana, accounting for 44% of outpatient attendance, 13% of all hospital deaths, and 22% of mortality among children ...
Abstract The role that the indigenous systems of governance in Africa play towards solving some of the social, political and economic problems cannot be overlooked. Contrary to the popular opinion suggesting that African indigenous approaches to conflict resolution are archaic and outmoded, this essay emphasizes the need to rethink the relevance of consensus as a sine qua non basis for conflict resolution in Zimbabwe. Here, consensus is described as a long-established form of compromise that ...
ABSTRACT Tuberculosis still remains one of the world’s deadliest curable disease. Emergence of HIV, multi-drug resistance (MDR), high prevalence of post-treatment tuberculosis are some of the major setbacks which now poses a major challenge to attainment of tuberculosis control programme targets of 70% detection of infectious tuberculosis and 80% cure rate of detected cases. Despite the availability of effective anti-tuberculosis and ant-retroviral (ART) drugs, high incidence rate of approx...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study is to examine the growth patterns of Ghanaian towns in terms of population size and to investigate the plausible reasons for an increase or decrease in the number of people living in the towns at a particular point in time. For a meaningful study, selection is made of all towns in the country with population of 10,000 or more by the 2000 Population and Housing Census Reports of Ghana. The study found out that, internal migration in Ghana flows in all...
ABSTRACT Background: Stroke has been named as one of the public health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) because of its impact on mortality, morbidity and quality of life. Despite this, there is limited population-based information on prevalence and correlates of stroke, and there is limited information on knowledge and experience of stroke from the perspectives of the stroke survivors and their caregivers in SSA. Objectives: This thesis examined the prevalence, correlates, knowledge and...
ABSTRACT Chronic non-communicable diseases pose a challenge to the achievement of developmental goals in low-income and middle-income countries. Over 9 million of all deaths associated with CNCDs occur among the economically active age group (WHO, 2011). Persons living with chronic disease(s) are confronted with psychosocial problems (de-Graft Aikins et al 2010). The study used the 2011 EDULUNK and qualitative data gathered by the RIPS-NYU project, to explore the prevalence of CNCDs in the ur...
ABSTRACT Safe drinking water is a basic need for good health as well as for human and economic development. Diarrhoea kills more than HIV and AIDS, and malaria combined. Diarrhoea kills about two million people especially children under five each year. The study investigates the relationship between source of household drinking water and diarrhoea incidence among children under five years in Ghana. A sample of 2,728 women who had given birth in the last five years preceding the survey was dra...