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Determinants of Childhood Survival in South-Western Nigeria

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• Volume 2,Issue 4, July 2015

Year:

2015

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Childhood, Diseases, Education Maternal-Health, Morbidity

Authors:

• Fadeyi, Adebayo O.

Journal:

IJIRES

Volume:

2

Number:

4

Pages:

279-283

Month:

July

BibTex:

@article{310, author = "Fadeyi, Adebayo O.", abstract = "This research study examined the forms of household environmental characteristics in Southwestern Nigeria; it examined the association between household sanitation facilities and prevalence of childhood diseases. The study made used of secondary source of data collection. Secondary data for the study was extracted from Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). The result shows that the prevalence of childhood diseases has varying degree of causes based on several casual-factors: environmental characteristics, sanitation facilities, age of child bearing mothers, level of educational attainment and economic status of the mothers. Poor environmental condition and low social-economic status are the staging barriers to child health in South-Western Nigeria. Therefore, the strongest thrust of the study is that seen women as the pivotal in the house-holds; they should be more empowered through better access to education and information on child and maternal health.", journal = "IJIRES", keywords = "Childhood, Diseases, Education Maternal-Health, Morbidity", month = "July", note = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/", number = "4", pages = "279-283", title = "{D}eterminants of {C}hildhood {S}urvival in {S}outh-{W}estern {N}igeria", volume = "2", year = "2015", }

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Abstract:

This research study examined the forms of household environmental characteristics in Southwestern Nigeria; it examined the association between household sanitation facilities and prevalence of childhood diseases. The study made used of secondary source of data collection. Secondary data for the study was extracted from Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). The result shows that the prevalence of childhood diseases has varying degree of causes based on several casual-factors: environmental characteristics, sanitation facilities, age of child bearing mothers, level of educational attainment and economic status of the mothers. Poor environmental condition and low social-economic status are the staging barriers to child health in South-Western Nigeria. Therefore, the strongest thrust of the study is that seen women as the pivotal in the house-holds; they should be more empowered through better access to education and information on child and maternal health.

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