ABSTRACT
This project work was
designed to find out the communicable diseases among primary school pupils in
Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area. Communicable diseases are very common among
primary pupils. Communicable diseases could be contacted and have effects in primary
school pupils, which may include deformity and poor academic performance.
Immunization can be used to control the spread of communicable diseases among
school pupils.
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
Background of the study
Statement of problem
Purpose of the study
Significance of the
study
Research questions
Scope of study
Limitation of study
Definition of terms
CHAPTER TWO
Literature review
CHAPTER
THREE
Research design
Population of the study
Sample of the study
Sample techniques
adopted
Instrumentation
Validity of instrument
Method of data
collection
Method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
Data analysis and
presentation
CHAPTER FIVE
Summary
Conclusion
Recommendation
REFERENCES
QUESTIONNAIRE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
In this era of technological advancement, there is a possibility for a fast
association of knowledge in all fields of human endeavours. The health care
delivery system of Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government is being geared towards aligning
with the national goal on “health for all”. One way of achieving this goal is
through the education of primary school pupils on better health care. This is
certainly one of the domains of physical and health education. Health education
is designed for primary school level to educate the pupils about common
diseases in our immediate environment and their prevention.
Also health education can also bridge the gap, reduce some of our environmental
hazards for the welfare of every citizen. It is well known that children are
exposed to various hazards of communicable diseases, it is necessary to guide
the children from these diseases. Therefore, the teacher should be very much
concerned with the health welfare and survival of his pupils. Communicable
diseases in the past have been “endemic” and now it has become “sporadic”
because of the awareness of this study. As the name implies communicable
disease is derived from the combination of two words, communicable and disease.
Communicable is an illness that can be in exchanged, share, transmit or
imparted.
Disease is an unfavourable condition of an organism caused by micro-organisms
as a result of illness, disorder of the body or mind. Communicable diseases are
sometimes referred to as infectious diseases. They are the diseases which are
communicated from one person to another or from animals to man through personal
contacts like air, water, dust or the use of personal belonging or families.
The communicable diseases that are common in pupils in primary schools include;
chicken pox, measles, cholera, whooping cough, typhoid, tuberculosis,
craw-craw, poliomyelitis (infant paralysis). The research is intended to
carryout the overview of communicable diseases among primary school pupils. It
is also intended to give useful advice and suggestions to teachers in primary
school in particular on how to prevent the spread of these communicable
diseases among the pupils in primary school in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government
Area.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
This research intends to carryout an overview of communicable diseases among
primary school pupils in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government Area as a case study the
researcher intend to do this under the following statement of problems.
a. Are communicable diseases common among primary
pupils in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government Area?
b. Do the pupils in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government
Area learn in a dirty environment that will lead to the spread of communicable
diseases among them?
c. Are the pupils and the teachers aware of the
prevalence of communicable diseases in the primary school in the local
government area?
d. Does over population in primary schools lead to
the spread of communicable diseases among students?
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of writing this project is as follows;
a. To identify the communicable diseases that is
prevalent in primary schools in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government Area of Edo State.
b. To find out the effects of communicable diseases
on the pupils and the society at large.
c. To outline the various causes of the diseases.
d. To reduce and control the diseases among primary
school pupils in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government Area of Edo State.
e. To examine the nature and scope of communicable
diseases.
SIGNIFICA NCE OF THE STUDY
The importance of this study cannot be overemphasized.
a. The study would also be of great help to the
ministry of health and the government whose objectives of primary health care
are preventive health and gradual eradication of these communicable diseases.
b. It will help the teachers and the pupils to be
aware of the commonest communicable diseases in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government
primary schools with the view of preventing their spread.
c. It helps the teachers to prevent a crowdy
classroom in order to give room for ventilation.
d. It helps the teachers to care about the health
of the students and to know how to treat the infected pupil.
e. It helps in continuous training of teachers on
disease control.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What are the prevalent communicable diseases in
the local government area?
2. How can communicable diseases be controlled?
3. Do communicable diseases have any effect on
primary school children?
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The study is exclusively limited to the effects of common communicable diseases
on the educational attainment of primary school pupils in Ikpoba OkhaLocal
Government Area of Edo State. It is possible to cover all communicable diseases
within a short time, consequent upon this, the study is limited to the
following diseases; measles, ringworm, and cholera.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
The following terms were used in this research work, many have different
meaning to many people in different fields but for the purpose of this study.
The meanings of these terms are as follows.
Communicable
diseases: They are the diseases
which are passed from one person to another through water, air, dust etc.
Non-communicable
diseases: These are diseases that
cannot be spread through personal contact, water, dust, air, etc.
Immunity: This is the ability or power possessed by
children to resist infection.
Dehydration: This is loss of water and dissolved salt from
the body.
Immunization: This is a form of disease prevention involving
the injection of a vaccine or an antiserum into the body of an organism in
other to protect the organism from attack by a disease.
Vaccination: This is a form of disease prevention involving
the administration of antigenic vaccine to stimulate the immune system of an
individual to develop adaptive immunity to a disease.
Lumps: This is an infectious disease characterized by
the swelling of the neck and the cheek due to the inflammation of the parotid
glands at the junction of the neck and the lower jaws.
Department | Biology |
Project ID Code | BIO0011 |
Chapters | 3 Chapters |
No of Pages | 43 pages |
Reference | YES |
Format | Microsoft Word |
Price | ₦4000, $15 |
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