Statistical Analysis of Prevalence Malnutrition on Children Zero to Five Years Chapter One AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF STUDY The main aim of the research work is to carry out a statistical analysis of the prevalence of malnutrition on children Zero to five years. Other specific aims of the study include:

 

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

INTRODUCTION

This chapter gives an insight into various studies conducted by outstanding researchers, as well as explained terminologies with regards to strategies for reducing malnutrition on children from zero to five years. The chapter also gives a resume of the history and present status of the problem delineated by a concise review of previous studies into closely related problems.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

The theoretical approach has its origins in Becker’s Microeconomic models of household production (Becker, 1965, 1981) in which households allocate goods and time to the production of commodities that are either sold on the market, consumed at home, or for which there is no market. This work was expanded to the demand for health by Grossman (1972) and it also modified by several economists like Behrman and Deolalikar (1989), Strauss and Thomas (1995) and Currie (2000).

Becker (1965) has proven in illuminating the household determinants of nutrition. A ‘nutrition production function’ relates the child’s nutritional status (measured in terms of height for age or weight for age) to a set of health ‘inputs’. These include the child’s nutrient intake, whether the child is breastfed and the duration of breastfeeding, preventive and curative medical care, and the quantity and quality of time of the mother or others in care-related activities. The quality of child care time in turn is likely to be functions of the caregiver’s age, experience, education, own health status and environmental factors are also enter the production function. The potentially conflicting effects of maternal labour supply on child nutrition are readily seen within the production function framework. Greater income from mother’s employment translates into higher consumption of market-purchased inputs such as food and medical care that raise nutritional status, but reductions in the level or the quality of time in health-related activities reduce nutritional status.

A child’s nutritional status reflects the combined effects of many factors, including nutrient intake, health, birth order, and behavioral factors governed by parental preferences. In recognition of the interrelated variables are expressed child’s nutritional production function, they represented as;

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CHAPTER THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Introduction

This chapter describes the research design, the target population and random sampling procedure, the instrument used, method of data collection and method of data analysis.

Research design

This is a descriptive study which seeks to ascertain the strategies for reducing malnutrition on children from zero to five years. A sample population will be used to collect primary data using the structured questionnaire and interview as research instrument.

Population of the study

The target population for this study consists of mothers of newly born babies from zero to five years.

Sample size and sampling technique

Random sampling technique was used in this study. The sample size determined for this study was one hundred (100) respondents; 80 are students selected from five health centres in Lagos Nigeria and twenty (20) women were selected from each health centre.

The table below shows the attribute of child from Zero to Five years old on yearly bases and the mortality rate of children for 10 years.

CHAPTER FOUR

DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

INTRODUCTION

This chapter deals with the presentation and analysis of the result obtained from questionnaires. The data gathered were presented according to the order in which they were arranged in the research questions, sample percentage and pie charts were used to analyze the demographic information of the respondents while the Pearson correlation method and ordinary least square regression were adopted to test the research hypothesis.

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Summary of Findings

The objective of the study was to know to examine the causes of malnutrition in children from zero to five years, the prevalence of malnutrition in children from zero to five years, to identify the strategies for reducing malnutrition in children from zero to five years.

Findings from the study review that nutritional value of children in Nigeria is low and this

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