SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF CHOLERA IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorBELLO, Zubaidah Yakubu
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-03T09:50:16Z
dc.date.available2018-12-03T09:50:16Z
dc.date.issued2018-02
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN STATISTICS DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, FACULTY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIAen_US
dc.description.abstractThe focus of this research is to analyze the spatial patterns and clusters of cholera epidemic in five local government areas(LGAs) of Kaduna State with the aid of Geospatial techniques. To analyze the spatial pattern and clusters of cholera epidemic in the study area, inventories provided by the Ministry of Health Kaduna State, coordinate of the locations of towns and localities were used for the analysis in ArcGIS 10.3 software environment and R Statistical software. The method employed in this study is Ripley‟s k-function method to determine spatial clusters of Cholera epidemic, analyzespatial pattern of cholera, identify disease clusters and risks using Geospatial Technology (GIS). The result shows that thereare about I87 locations of patients with Cholera disease cases in the study area from the year 2010 to 2015. Amongst the study area, Zaria Local Government Area, has the highest number of about 71 locations which constitutes about 37.97%, Igabi Local Government with 53 locations constituting about 28.34%, SabonGari Local Government with 19 locations constituting about 10.16%, Kaduna South Local Government having 28 locations constituting 14.97%, and Kaduna North with the lowest locations of about 16 patients (8.56%). It was found that there were about 1,363 reported cases of people with Cholera disease in Igabi LGA, being the area with the highest number and with 217 cases in Zaria which is the lowest. The result showed that four among the five local governmentswere clustered with the exception of Kaduna North for which the disease pattern is random. Moreover, the result revealed that the overall spatial pattern of cholera epidemic in the study area is clustered, and the overall cholera disease risk was more concentrated in Igabi and Kaduna South LGA.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11035
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSPATIAL ANALYSIS,en_US
dc.subjectCHOLERA,en_US
dc.subjectKADUNA STATE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAen_US
dc.titleSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF CHOLERA IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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