Emergency Obstetric Care Availability Health Education and Maternal Mortality Reduction in South-South Nigeria
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2019, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
This study was directed at investigating the relationship between emergency obstetric care health education and reducing maternal mortality as a way of isolating the gap that threaten women at delivery. The study was a part of larger MDGs descriptive research of 894 women using healthcare facilities in South-South Nigeria. Questionnaire was used to solicit data and administered to participants through facility staff. Descriptive statistics and Pearson product moment coefficient was used to analyse the data at 0.05 mean benchmark and 0.05 level of significant respectively. It was found that healthcare facilities at providing emergency obstetrics do exist in south-south Nigeria. There was a significant relationship between emergency obstetric care, health education and maternal mortality reduction in south-south, Nigeria. It was recommended that women education be sustained and improve upon, while healthcare facilities should continuously be improved upon among others.
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Ogbe O. Joseph
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