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Assessing The Impact Of Poverty On Maternal And Infant Mortality
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1.6 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
According
to Osuala (2001), “Hypotheses are conjectural statement of the
relationship between two or more variablesâ€. They are guide to the
investigator in the entire process of research on the main study. In
fact, hypotheses are generally useful guides to effective research.
Hypothesis formulation goes hand in hand with the selection of a
research problem. The hypothesis for this research is as follows:
Ho1: There is a relationship between socio-economic status in maternal and child mortality.
Ho2: The health of mother and child is largely dependent on their socio-economic status.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Basically,
this study will help residents in Jos North Local Government learn
preventive measures on maternal and child mortality. It will also help
policy makers and authorities of Plateau State Government improve on
development programmes thereby taking adequate steps towards reducing
and alleviating maternal and child death in our society. It is also
intended and desired that it will enable medical officials and expectant
mothers to embark on preventive measures against such mortality.
Furthermore,
this study will equip men with the necessary information concerning
infant, and maternal mortality in the society such that they will begin
to provide more and adequate care for their wives, mothers and children
(both born and unborn). These ones represent the future of the society.
1.7 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
This
study is basically centered on Jos North Local Government Area. It is
aimed at determining the magnitude damage poverty has done on the lives
of women of reproductive age during child birth and death of children
between 0-1 year.
1.8 DEFINITION OF BASIC CONCEPTS
Impact:
The advanced learner’s dictionary puts it as “to have strong impression
or effect on e.g., the economy. Also, a significant or strong influence.
Here, we are determining the effect/influence of poverty on mother and
child mortality.
Poverty: The absence of those needs necessary for
human survival. The new encyclopedia Britannica volume 9, Chicago:
Encyclopedia Britannica 2003. It is also a major barrier to human
development. Poverty can also defined as the situation of people whose
“resources (material, social and cultural) are so limited as to exclude
them from the minimum acceptable way of life in the countries where they
live. (Defining poverty, http://www.anglicare.com)
Maternal: Maternal means a mother, related through the mother’s side of the family. (Advanced Learners Dictionary).
Child:
children, a young person birth to the age of 7 full physical
development, a boy or a girl; a child of size. (Advanced Learners
Dictionary).
Mortality: Means death and dying, the irreversible
caesarian of life and the imminent approach of death. (Encarta –
Encyclopedia 2002).
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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---
