Anthropology Research Papers/Topics

Maternal Mortality And Access To Primary Health Care In Niger East Senatorial Zone, Niger State Nigeria

ABSTRACT The general objective of the study was to examine maternal mortality and access to Primary Health Care (PHC) in Niger East Senatorial Zone, Niger State Nigeria. The study adopted a cross sectional survey design. The sample size of 1,445 respondents (women of reproductive age) was selected using multi-stage sampling techniques. The major survey instrument was questionnaire, complemented byFocus Group Discussions (FGD) and In-Depth Interviews (IDI). Quantitativedata were analyzed usin...

A Preliminary Survey of Religion in an Urban Location

Abstract: This report had its genesis in a proposed thesis, purporting to investigate the part that Religion (including both Christianity and the indigenous beliefs of the Bantu) is playing in the lives of the people at Langa, the Municipal Native location lying about eight miles from Cape Town. It was felt that, after some two hundred years of missionary endeavour in South Africa, the time was ripe for an assessment of the degree to which Christianity had become part of the Bantu scheme of t...