Taddele, Tefera (2010) Infant Mortality and Maternal Health Care Services in Limu-Seka Wereda, Oromiya Region. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identify the important health factors that influenced infant death in Limu-seka woreda, Oromiya region. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire from February 13 to February 28, 2010. The study was cross-sectional design at household level which consisted of a sample of 403 eligible women in the reproductive age. The eligible women 403 were selected through multistage sampling techniques. Well known statistical tools Chi-square (χ2) test, logistic regression and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. The study results revealed that maternal health related variables such as postpartum visit, place of treatment of infant and vaccination receipt of infant among a set of selected variables which affected infant mortality. The χ2 –test result showed that place of treatment, breastfeeding, vaccination receipt, postpartum visit and parity had statistically significantly associated with infant mortality. Multivariate analysis results revealed that infant death is 88% lower for an infant who got treatment from health institute compared to an infant who got treatment from traditional source. It is evident from the study that infants had 47% lower risk of death who were born to mothers of parity 4 and above than infants who were born to mothers of parity 3,and also the risk of an infant death who was born in the period less than 24 months following the preceding birth was 5.5 times higher than an infant being a first child or born after 36 months following the old sibling. Hence, the local health bureaus should give attention to the expansion of MCH services in order to reduce the risk of infant mortality in the woreda. It is important to encourage women to limit their off springs and to take their infants to health institution for treatment rather than traditional healer. Moreover, HEWs should work closely with women of reproductive age to address the problem.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Aug 2018 12:23 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2018 12:23 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8146 |
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