THE INFLUENCE OF WEATHER ELEMENTS ON THE OCCURRENCE OF SOME COMMON DISEASES IN KAFANCHAN, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorBAKO, Marcus
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-05T10:28:15Z
dc.date.available2014-02-05T10:28:15Z
dc.date.issued2012-10
dc.description.abstractThe critical elements of weather such as rainfall, temperature and relative humidity influence diseases. Although medical science has made remarkable progress in fighting diseases through modern technology, the health of the human population is still influenced to a great extent by weather and climate. This study helps in determining the role weather elements play in diseases outbreak and transmission. The objectives of the study are to identify weather induced common diseases in Kafanchan, assess the nature of the relationship between common diseases and weather elements responsible for them and to examine the seasonality of common diseases in the study area. The methodology used in this research involve the collection of monthly data of temperature (minimum and maximum), rainfall and relative humidity for 10 years(1999 to 2008) in Kafanchan from the Water Board of the same town. Medical records of the diseases: malaria, typhoid, meningitis, measles, diarrhoea, cough, pneumonia and cholera were obtained from three hospitals using purposive sampling method based on their spatial spread within the study area and the duration of their existence, if up to 10 years and availability of records. These diseases are among the common diseases in Kafanchan. Correlation and Regression analysis statistic were used to assess relationship between weather elements (rainfall, temperature and relative humidity) of Kafanchan and the occurrence of common diseases. ANOVA was used to find out if there is significant different in the seasonality of occurrences of the common diseases The Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and stepwise and enter methods of Regression Analysis were used. The descriptive statistics indicates that malaria and typhoid have the highest number of frequency of occurrence in all the variables. Measles and meningitis rarelyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/277
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectINFLUENCE,en_US
dc.subjectWEATHER ELEMENTS,en_US
dc.subjectOCCURRENCE,en_US
dc.subjectCOMMON DISEASES,en_US
dc.subjectKAFANCHAN,en_US
dc.subjectKADUNA STATE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAen_US
dc.titleTHE INFLUENCE OF WEATHER ELEMENTS ON THE OCCURRENCE OF SOME COMMON DISEASES IN KAFANCHAN, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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