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Assessing The Impact Of Poverty On Maternal And Infant Mortality
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1.3 STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
Maternal
and child mortality as earlier mentioned above are not strange problems
in our society. They are as old as human existence but the trend and
pattern varies across generations and socio-economic lines. In this work
however, the researcher is interested in unfolding the link between
poverty (socio-economic status) in the family with maternal and child
mortality. Death of mothers and children are painful experiences that
affect families and also have it’s toll on the society and the economy.
Maternal
and child mortality is not an uncommon event in several parts of the
developing world. Mothers and children are at highest risk for disease
and death. While motherhood is often a possible and fulfilling
experience for too many women, it is associated with ill-health and even
death (Olatoye, 2009). The death of a woman during pregnancy, labor or
peuriperium is a tragedy that carries a huge burden of grief and pain,
and has been described as a major public health problem in developing
countries. Women have an enormous impact on their families’ welfare.
Deaths of infant/children under five are peculiar and closely related to
maternal health. One million children die each year because their
mother died, and the risk of death of children less than five years
doubles if mothers die in child birth. More than 25,000 children die
every day and every minute a woman dies in child birth. Worldwide, every
year about 500,000 women die due to child birth and over 9 million
children under age five die mostly from preventable and diseases. (WHO,
2003).
Available evidence indicates that Africa accounts for the
highest burden of mortality among women and children in the world
(Udofia and Okonofua, 2000; Prata. Et al, 2008).
In the light of the
above, the researcher, who is a social work student of University of
Jos, a woman and a mother who has observed with keen interest, over
the years the prevalence of the above situation in Jos North area of
Plateau state on how mother and children die of this preventable
situation and has therefore, embarked on the research using Plateau
State Specialist Hospital has her resource/data collection base.
Armstrong and Roystone (1990) asserted that:
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research work consider the impact of poverty on maternal and infant mortality in Jos North Local Government area. Maternal and infant mortality are not new concept in the social and medical sciences. They both pose serious threats to human survival especially in the future generations it is a saying, that the future of any society depends on the health condition of the women and the young population. The sustenance of the society and the economy largely depends on these two groups, to this ... Continue reading---
