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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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Autores principales: Olaogun, Adenike AE, Adebayo, Abayomi A, Ayandiran, Olufemi E, Olasode, Olayinka A
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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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.
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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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