ANALYSIS OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES AND HUMAN RESOURCES IN KAURA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA
ANALYSIS OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES AND HUMAN RESOURCES IN KAURA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA
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2017-06
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BONET, Sylvester Nkut
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This study was aimed at analyzing health care facilities and human resources in Kaura Local Government Area, Kaduna State, Nigeria, using Geographic Information System. To achieve this, GPS was used to obtain the coordinates of the healthcare facilities; a check list was also used to obtain attribute data in each of the facility. Documentary data were obtained from textbooks, journals, the internet, theses, seminar papers, report and existing map of Kaura Local Government Area. According to the 2006 National population census, Kaura Local Government Area has population of 222,579 people. Mapping was done to show the distribution of facilities within the 10 political wards while a database was created and queried, simple percentage was used to analyze the data. The study shows that there is at least more than one facility in each of the ward with only 3 among the 10 wards having medical doctors. There is only 1 secondary healthcare facility in the area located in Kaura ward and is the only healthcare facility with 2 doctors. The research reveals that there is disparity in the spatial distribution of healthcare facilities while the population to facility ratio shows that population was not considered as a basis for the distribution of healthcare facilities in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna state, Nigeria, thus suggesting the possibility of overcrowding in some of the healthcare centres. The study recommended that both Kaduna State and Kaura Local Government should adopt population threshold as a yardstick for health care facility distribution as this is the only approach to ensure equity and social justice in distribution of health care and other basic facilities.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRATUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
DEGREE IN GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM)
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT,
FACULTY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA
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ANALYSIS,, HEALTH CARE FACILITIES,, HUMAN RESOURCES,, KAURA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA,, KADUNA STATE,, NIGERIA