The Impact of Poverty and Child Mortality in Uganda. A Case of Kanungu District

ABSTRACT The study aimed at establishing the relationship between poverty and child mortality in Kanungu district. The objectives of the study were, to determine the effects of poverty in Kanungu district, to examine the factors influencing child motility in Kanungu district and to identify the relationship between poverty and child motility in Kanungu district. These designs helped to generate information on Poverty and Child Mortality in Kanungu district. The designs employed the use of questionnaires and in-depth interviews which are to be conducted between the different types of respondents. The study was conducted in Kambuga Town Council. A sample size of 80 respondents was determined through purposive and random sampling methods. This was so because the nature of data to be generated required different techniques for better understanding of the research problem under investigation. Besides this the approach is also commonly known for achieving higher degree of validity and reliability as well as elimination ol biases as per Amin (2005).The finding showed respondents who strongly agreed that Malnutrition was seen in children of poor families. People living in poverty rarely have unhealthiest foods that lead to child mortality therefore, malnutrition’s potentiating effects on prevailing infectious diseases that lead to child Mortality in Kanungu district. Majority of the respondents agreed. It is recommended that health sectors in Kanungu district should provide services to mitigate the health effects of poverty, and articulate the health-related significance of poverty on child mortality, in collaboration with other sectors to advance healthy public policy. However, no single data collection or analysis method meets all the needs for measures of child mortality therefore; further studies should be carried out.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION

APPROVAL

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEGDEMENTS iv

LIST OF TABLES

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE 1

INTRODUCTION i

1 .0 Introduction 1

1 .1 Back ground of the study 1

1.2 Problem Statement 3

1 .3 General Objective 4

1.3.1 Specific Objectives 4

1.3.1 Research Questions 4

1.4 Scope 4

1.4.1 Time scope: 4

1.4.2. Geographical: 5

1.4.3. Content 5

1.5 Significance of the study s

1 .6 Conceptual Framework 6

CHAPTER TWO 8

LITERATURE REVIEW 8

2.0 Introduction 8

2.1 Effects of Poverty 8

2.2 Factors Influencing Child Motility 1 2

2.3 Measures to Child Mortality 14

2.4 Relationship between poverty and child motility 16

2.5 Idiosyncratic shocks and the relation with poverty: poverty traps and edges 17

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CFIAPTER THREE .19

METHODOLOGY 19

3.0 Introduction 19

3.1 Research Design 19

3.2. Population 19

3.2,1 Sample Selections 19

3.2.2 Sample Size 20

3.2.3 Sampling techniques 20

3.3 Sources of data 21

3.3.1 Primary Source 21

3.3.2 Secondary Source 21

3.4 Data Collection Methods 21

3.4.1 Documentation! secondary data~ 2 1

3.4.2 Questionnaire 21

3.6 Reliability and validity 22

3.7 Measurement of the instrument 22

3.8 Measurements of variables 22

3.9 Data processing, analysis and presentation 22

3.9.1 Data analysis 23

3.9.2 Data Editing 23

3.9.3 Data Coding 23

3.10 Research Procedure 23

3.11 Ethical Consideration 24

3.14. Limitations of the study 24

The study might involve the following constraints; 24

CHAPTER FOUR 25

DATA INTERPRETATION, ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF THE FINDINGS..25

4.0 Introduction 25

4.1 Background information of the respondents 25

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4.1 .1 Gender of respondent .25

4.1.3 Marital status of respondent 26

4.1 .3 Education level of respondents 27

4.2 The Effects of Poverty on Child Mortality in Kanungu district 28

4.2.1 Findings on Malnutrition and its influence on Child Mortality 28

4.2,2 Findings on the Health effect on Child Mortality in Kanungu district 29

4.2.3 Findings on the Education and its influence on Child Mortality in Kanungu district 29

4.3 The Measures to Child Mortality in Kanungu District 30

4.3.2 Findings on the Access to an Improved Water Source in Kanungu district 3 1

4.3.3 Findings on the Prevalence of Human Immunodefciency on Child Mortality in Kanungu 32

4.4 The Relationship between poverty and child motility 32

CHAPTER FIVE 34

SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS,

RECOMMENDATIONS AND AREA FOR FUTURE STUDIES 34

5.0 Introduction 34

5.1 A Summary of Findings 34

5.1.1 The Effects of Poverty on Child Mortality in Kanungu district 34

5.1.2 Findings on the Measures to Child Mortality in Kanungu District 35

5.1.3 Findings the Relationship between poverty and child motility 36

5.2 Discussion 37

5.2 Conclusion 3$

5.3 Recommendation 39

5.4 Suggestions for further research 40

REFERENCES 41

APENDICES 43

APPENDIX: I QUESTIONNAIRE FOR RESPONDENTS 43

APPENDIX: II PROPOSED TIME PLAN FOR THE STUDY 48

APPENDIX: III PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE STUDY 49