Resource Availabilty And Maternal Mortality in Budaka District, Uganda
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2012-09
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School of Engineering and Sciences Engineering.
Abstract
This study was set to investigate the relationship between resource availability and
maternal mortality in Budaka District, Uganda from 2005 to 2011. The study basically
examined secondary data. It was also a descriptive-correlation since it sought to
examine the relationship between the independent variables (resource availability) and
the dependent variable (maternal mortality). The population of this study was the
records on the variables of the study from 2005 to 2011. The study targeted annual
reports by the Budaka District health department and Ministry of Health. The study had
three (3) objectives and these were; to investigate the level of resource availability in
Budaka District, Uganda, to determine the level of maternal mortality in Budaka District,
Uganda, and to establish whether there is a significant relationship between the level of
resource availability and the level of maternal mortality in the following ways; skilled
health personnel and maternal mortality; equipment and maternal mortality; essential
supplies and maternal mortality from 2005 to 2011. The study found out that the level
of level of resource availability in Budaka district was increasing over time, level of
maternal mortality was decreasing over time, and that there was no significant
relationship between skilled health personnel and maternal mortality thus; the null
hypothesis was accepted basing on the findings, leading to a conclusion that there is no
significant relationship between skilled health personnel and maternal mortality.
The researcher had a few recommendations thus; Budaka district’s local government
together with the central government should put efficient health systems in place that
can design public policies, implement, audit and other checks and balances to ensure
efficient use of public funds so as to maintain and promote a significant impact on
maternal mortality and maternal health. And that Budaka district local government
should have a data base system that captures information on health related issues, like
births, child mortality, adult mortality (men and women aged 15 — 49), diseases and
others. The central government especially ministry of health and Uganda bureau of
statistics should have data broke down up to district level instead of having it by region
and the whole country.
Description
A Research Proposal Presented to The College of Higher Degrees and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for The Degree Master of Science in Statistics.
Keywords
Resource Availability, Maternal Mortality, Budaka District, Uganda