Assessment of Maternal and Child Health Care delivery Initiative Programme in Ondo, Ondo West Local Government, Nigeria
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Management Sciences and Education - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Nigeria is one of the countries having very poor health indicators especially onmaternal and child mortality rates. Within Nigeria, Ondostate had theworstmaternal and child mortality rates in South-west as at 2008. It wasagainst thisbackground that Ondo state government started the safe motherhood reproductiveand child intervention programme in 2009 inIfedoreLocalgovernmentand laterextended to other parts including Ondo tagged ‘Mother and Childhospital’ or ‘AbiyeProgramme’. The Ondo programme which started about two years ago and worthassessing and specifically to determine its successfulandunsuccessful aspects with aview to make informed recommendations to enhance improvement.Self-developedquestionnaires were administered to 95 mothers through healthpersonnel working inthe hospital. The questionnaires were filled by the mothers throughthe assistance ofthe health personnel and retrieved back after completion. The data collected wereanalysed using frequencies, percentages and mean at the univariatelevel andanalysis of variance at the bivariate level. The study found 37.8 percent, 14.7 percent and 47.5 per cent of the respondents were from rural, semiurban and urbanareas respectively while 8.4 per cent, 66.3 per cent, 12.6 per cent and12.6 per centwere single, married, separated and divorced mothersrespectively.Mothers were ofthe opinion that the programme is successful because of provision offree medicaltreatments to mothers and children under 5 years of age, provision ofimmunizationand counselling services which have led to reduction in deaths ofmothers andchildren. However, cultural beliefs, social groups and family pressureare likely toaid increase birth rates. The paper recommends thatawarenesscampaign should be incorporated into the intervention programme using culturalassociations, family system, and social groups as agent of delivery particularly in rural and semi-urban areas
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A. D. Shofoyeke, Y. A. Adebola- Arokoyo
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