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Effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting
BACKGROUND: Public health research is shifting focus to the role of socioeconomic indicators in the promotion of health. As such an understanding of the roles that socio-economic factors play in improving health and health-seeking behaviour is important for public health policy. This is because the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1395328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16426450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-6-1 |
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author | Olaogun, Adenike AE Adebayo, Abayomi A Ayandiran, Olufemi E Olasode, Olayinka A |
author_facet | Olaogun, Adenike AE Adebayo, Abayomi A Ayandiran, Olufemi E Olasode, Olayinka A |
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description | BACKGROUND: Public health research is shifting focus to the role of socioeconomic indicators in the promotion of health. As such an understanding of the roles that socio-economic factors play in improving health and health-seeking behaviour is important for public health policy. This is because the share of resources devoted to different policy options should depend on their relative effectiveness. OBJECTIVE: To measure the effect of socio-economic status (age, education, occupation, income, religion and family structure) of mothers on the management of febrile conditions in under-fives children METHOD: Two hundred mothers who brought their febrile under-five children to a health facility were interviewed on the treatment they gave to their children before reporting at health facility. Data collected were entered and analyzed using the SPSS software. Binary logistic regression was adopted for the quantitative analysis of the effect of socio-economic variables on the mothers' actions prior to utilizing the health facility. RESULTS: Results showed that while mothers' age was negatively correlated (-0.13), occupation was positively correlated (0.17) with under-fives mothers' action. Education, religion, income and family structure were however insignificant at 5% level CONCLUSION: This poses a lot of challenges to policy makers in the developing nations where women's education and earning capacity is low. There is therefore a need to increase the number of women benefiting from micro credit. This will ensure that more women are engaged in a form of occupation that is profitable and can sustain the economic and health needs of the family. |
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spelling | pubmed-13953282006-03-09 Effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting Olaogun, Adenike AE Adebayo, Abayomi A Ayandiran, Olufemi E Olasode, Olayinka A BMC Int Health Hum Rights Research Article BACKGROUND: Public health research is shifting focus to the role of socioeconomic indicators in the promotion of health. As such an understanding of the roles that socio-economic factors play in improving health and health-seeking behaviour is important for public health policy. This is because the share of resources devoted to different policy options should depend on their relative effectiveness. OBJECTIVE: To measure the effect of socio-economic status (age, education, occupation, income, religion and family structure) of mothers on the management of febrile conditions in under-fives children METHOD: Two hundred mothers who brought their febrile under-five children to a health facility were interviewed on the treatment they gave to their children before reporting at health facility. Data collected were entered and analyzed using the SPSS software. Binary logistic regression was adopted for the quantitative analysis of the effect of socio-economic variables on the mothers' actions prior to utilizing the health facility. RESULTS: Results showed that while mothers' age was negatively correlated (-0.13), occupation was positively correlated (0.17) with under-fives mothers' action. Education, religion, income and family structure were however insignificant at 5% level CONCLUSION: This poses a lot of challenges to policy makers in the developing nations where women's education and earning capacity is low. There is therefore a need to increase the number of women benefiting from micro credit. This will ensure that more women are engaged in a form of occupation that is profitable and can sustain the economic and health needs of the family. BioMed Central 2006-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC1395328/ /pubmed/16426450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-6-1 Text en Copyright © 2006 Olaogun et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Olaogun, Adenike AE Adebayo, Abayomi A Ayandiran, Olufemi E Olasode, Olayinka A Effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting |
title | Effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting |
title_full | Effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting |
title_fullStr | Effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting |
title_short | Effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting |
title_sort | effects of mothers' socio-economic status on the management of febrile conditions in their under five children in a resource limited setting |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1395328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16426450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-6-1 |
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