EVALUATION OF HEALTH EDUCATION A TOOL FOR ERADICATING COMMUNICABLE DISEASE AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the observe
A communicable ailment is an contamination because of a selected infectious agent or it is poisonous merchandise(1) .It arises thru transmission of that agent or its merchandise from an inflamed character or animal to a inclined host both direct or in a roundabout way thru an intermediate plant or animal host ,vector or the inanimate environment (2). Infectious ailment may be a main reason of contamination amongst youngsters and might have an effect on a kid’s training with the aid of using inflicting absenteeism .They can also additionally in turn, have an effect on different youngsters and personnel, and might save you mother and father careers cappotential to work, in particular wherein each mother and father careers work (3) .School fitness packages couldn’t be absolutely carried out while not having personnel and parent’s cooperation and involvement .Parents, network leaders and instructors frequently can and do function function fashions for college students. Students function a linkage with college and own circle of relatives at the same time as mother and father can and ought to cooperate with faculties to assist their youngsters. (4)Communicable illnesses unfold speedy amongst college students withinside the classroom, there ought to be accumulated printable and endorse for germ prevention in college (5). Recent years have visible a dramatic growth in public problem approximately communicable illnesses in the colleges everywhere in the world .School administrations ought to locate methods to strike a stability among protective the overall college populace from publicity to risky communicable illnesses and making sure the inflamed student’s proper to privateness and to public schooling. This observe specializes in assessment of fitness schooling as a device to the prevention and manipulate of communicable illnesses amongst number one college pupils, apart from immunization and damage discount interventions, that are the topics of extra proof. It takes its lead from conferences, one held with the aid of using Interior Health in November 2005 and a 2d with the aid of using Vancouver Health Authority in February 2006, which targeted on populace fitness and fitness advertising, which includes precise periods on their relevance to communicable illnesses. Both conferences tested the space among the wealthy discourse placed in educational literature on fitness advertising and populace fitness and its utility at the ground. More so, those conferences showed that fitness advertising techniques have now no longer been a concern awareness of communicable ailment prevention projects. This become reconfirmed thru a seek of the literature and discussions with a key informant that has been in detail concerned with worldwide evaluations of the proof base for fitness advertising. Health safety techniques crucial to communicable illnesses encompass the ones applicable to secure food, consuming water and leisure water, and good enough network sanitation. Preventive intervention techniques, which effect on communicable illnesses, encompass number one prevention projects which include immunization and vector manipulate, and early secondary prevention techniques which include post-publicity prophylaxis, screening and remedy of communicable illnesses and speak to tracing and management. Health evaluation and ailment surveillance techniques crucial for communicable ailment prevention and manipulate encompass detecting ailment clusters and outbreaks thru network-based, hospital-based, and medical epidemiology, and laboratory surveillance networks, fitness advertising techniques crucial for communicable ailment prevention and manipulate, that are the point of interest of this proof observe, encompass a fixed of techniques that permit humans to growth manipulate over and enhance their fitness. Health advertising techniques are taken into consideration to be similarly legitimate for the prevention and manipulate of communicable illnesses, 1 in spite of the point of interest of this method on non-communicable illnesses, in particular withinside the advanced world. The Bangkok Charter, advanced in August 2005, explicitly noted communicable illnesses in its revised definition of fitness advertising. This renewed hobby is likewise obvious in Canada and may be ascribed to the developing problem approximately the threats posed with the aid of using some of communicable ailment trends, which include the staying power of AIDS and hepatitis C, the appearance of new
1.2 THE PROBLEM’S STATEMENT
Despite the focus of this approach on noncommunicable diseases, health promotion strategies are thought to be equally valid for the prevention and control of communicable diseases, particularly in the developed world. In its revised definition of health promotion, the Bangkok Charter, developed in August 2005, explicitly mentioned communicable diseases. This renewed interest can be attributed to growing concern in Canada about the threats posed by a number of communicable disease trends in the developing world. In light of this, the researcher intends to assess the impact of health education on communicable disease eradication among primary school students.
1.3 THE STUDY’S OBJECTIVE
The primary goal of the research is to evaluate
Health education as a tool for communicable disease eradication among primary school students; however, in order to complete the study, the researcher intends to achieve the following goals;
I To assess the effectiveness of health education in reducing communicable disease among primary school students.
ii) Determine the impact of health education on students’ health.
iii) To investigate the relationship between health education and student academic performance.
iv) Determine the role of parents in educating students about communicable disease prevention in schools.
1.4 HYPOTHESES FOR RESEARCH
The researcher developed the following research hypotheses to aid in the completion of the study.
H0:Health education has no significant effect on reducing communicable disease among primary school children.
H1: Health education has a significant impact on reducing communicable disease among primary school students.
H02: Parents play no significant role in educating their children about the dangers of communicable diseases.
H2: Parents play an important role in educating their children about the dangers of communicable disease.
1.4 THE STUDY’S SIGNIFICANCE
The findings of the study will be of great importance to parents, as the study seeks to emphasize the role of parents in educating their children on the possible measures of preventing communicable diseases in their school environment. The study will also be of great importance to teachers in imbibing a rigorous approach to health education on the pupils. The research will also be published.
1.6 STUDY SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
The study’s scope includes an evaluation of health education as a tool for communicable disease eradication among primary school pupils, with a focus on Lea Primary School in Lugbe Village, FCT Abuja. However, there were some factors in the study’s cause that limited the scope of the study; (a) Availability of research material: The researcher’s research material is insufficient, limiting the study.
(b) Time: The study’s time frame does not allow for broader coverage because the researcher must balance other academic activities and examinations with the study.
(c) Finance: Due to the researcher’s limited resources, the funding available for research work does not allow for broader coverage.
1.7 TERM DEFINITION
Infectious disease
The specific disease or infectious agent determines how these diseases spread. Physical contact is one method by which communicable diseases spread.
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