Prevention Of Malaria
Abstract
Malaria continues to be a lesser cause of morbidity and mortality in Ghana. The government of Ghana and other patron agencies are making tremendous sweats to help and control the complaint. In malignancy of these sweats by the government, malaria has not yet been defeated in its fortification.
The end of the study was to find out the gests community nursers have about the being styles of precluding malaria and the challenges facing them in their trouble to help the complaint in Dormaa megacity.
Qualitative exploration was used to find out the preferred styles in the community. Also the study delved the colorful misconceptions the people have about the preventative styles and the challenges nursers encounter. 18 community nursers from all the health posts in the megacity were canvassed throughsemi-structured questionnaires.
The study revealed that repellants and ITNs were the most favored styles used to help malaria in Dormaa. residers have colorful misconceptions about these preventative styles. It also came out that lack of finances and shy particular restrain the conditioning of nursers in their sweats to promote health in the area.
1 preface
Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. Malaria poses a lesser trouble to about 40 the population of the world, particularly pregnant women and children under the age of five. In time 2010, there was an estimation of nearly 220 million cases of malaria and 660,000 deaths independently. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region substantially affected with about 85 of these cases being in that region( Abora, et.al. 2013.) According to WHO( 2013), malaria kills 1300 children in a day and one child every nanosecond encyclopedically. Malaria is epidemic throughout the tropical regions in the world. It’s considered to be one of the killer conditions insub-Sahara Africa. It was estimated that 300 million cases of malaria was recorded on the globe annually( Dugbartey & Apedo, 1998.) The world needs 3 billion bones to combat malaria every time( UNICEF, 2012).
The 2010 report from 106 malaria aboriginal countries indicates that the cost of backing for the control of this complaint was1.5 billion bones in only 2009. This seriously threatens the 2015 global target, since the report further indicates that fund flux remained at1.8 billion bones as against over 6 billion bones needed within the period mentioned( WHO, 2010). Malaria kills over a million people every time encyclopedically with 90 percent of the deaths coming from Africa. Children under five times also constitute 70 percent of this number. Insub-Saharan Africa, one in five children death is the result of malaria( Molavi, 2003.)
In Ghana, malaria has rendered numerous people mentally clog and psychiatric morbidity( Dugbartey & Apedo, 1998). Malaria has caused a section of the population into poverty and this situation has reduced public affair, hence decelerating down public development. Despite the fact that several attempts have been made over the times to combat the complaint in Ghana, statistics for 2010 indicated that an normal of 8200 cases were reported daily, and a aggregate of 3 million cases for a whole time. Out of this figure, over 3000 deaths were recorded. The most vulnerable population was children and pregnant women( Tettey, 2011).
Malaria is the leading killer complaint in Ghana. In 2008 Ministry of Health( MOH) calculated bones for malaria. It’s estimated that malaria accounts for 33 of death in children under five time old and 36 of all sanitarium admission sickness in the country( Ghanaweb, 2012.) Every time3.5 million people are infected with malaria and roughly 20,000 people also die from malaria of which utmost of them are children under five times of age. utmost of the children who are suitable to survive from malaria suffer from upheaval and brain diseases, which affect their growth and development. In 2008 the cost of malaria was 760 million bones and that was 10 of the country’s gross domestic product. Upon this entire ruinous situation little attention has been given to exploration in this area of study( Tweneboa- Kodua, Otuo & Mahama 2012.)
The prevalence rate of Malaria in Dormaa Municipality of Ghana continues to increase. Available records at the Minisry of Health for Dormaa Municipality shows periodic malaria prevalence adding from time 2005 to 2007. In time 2005, Out Patient Department( OPD) cases diagnosed, as malaria was 51,163. This figure rose to 66,833 and 93,216 in time 2006 and 2007 independently. In time 2008 still, the figure dropped from 93,216 recorded the former time to 88,381( Majoros, 2011.) These numbers show that malaria is still a major trouble to the population of Dormaa and Ghana in general. The end of the study is to find out the gests community nursers have about the being styles of precluding malaria.