Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
This study
aims at a descriptive epidemiological survey of prevailing disease burden not
readily detected or suspected by formal medical service of Governments and
other stake holders as well as detection of the etiology of the identified
disease in the area under investigation. The problem statement is informed by
the clear recognition that the urban slum dwellers have a unique characteristic
in the social, spatial, economic and demographic attributes which demands a
careful assessment of their social ecology and the impact thereon. Objectives
were therefore formulated to elicit the needed information that will underscore
the very essence of determinants of diseases prevalent in the area. Plausible
justification for the study was sufficiently elaborated from the point of view
of epidemiological and social benefits derivable from the findings of the
study. The methodology clearly expostulated such key frameworks as area of
study, study design, study population/sampling techniques, instruments for data
collection and procedure for collection of data which was analyzed by method of
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The output of the findings showed that the
calculated F-value is greater than the F-critical value at (0.05). Therefore,
there was appreciable evidence to reject the null hypothesis and accept the
alternative hypothesis which states that there is a significant variation or
difference in the incidence of disease burden prevalent in the areas
investigated. The research concluded that there is a critical need for a new
method of health evaluation and characterization of social-cluster determinants
of health in Urban Slum.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 5, May 2023 pp. 341-347
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