ANALYSIS OF THE RATE OF INFANT MORTALITY FROM I MONTH TO I YEAR (A CASE STUDY OF PARK-LANE GENERAL HOSPITAL ENUGU 1995 – 2004)

ABSTRACT The rate of death of our children attracts concern from every Nigerian. It is clear that the only way to wipe out a race is to cut its means of future reproduction which is the children and this children are believed to be our future presidents, governors etc and the ensure older generation of a better tomorrow. Infant morality have a considerable significance on demography. The level of death rate in early life has been described as a crucial test of the health service and special progress of a country. The young child’s life is wholly dependent on the care of mothers.  It is base on this that the government through the ministry of health fights to ensure that all the preventable childhood disease that leads to infant deaths the reduced to most minimal level.  This gave way to the introduction of Expanded programme on immunization (EPI) and ORAL Dehydration Therapy (ORT).  These programmes are aimed at teaching parents on how to make salt, sugar, water as oral drip to cure diarrhea and to immunize poliomyelitis, small pox, chicken pox, whooping cough and tuberculosis. Ever since the introduction of these programmes, great lots have been achieved by reducing the number of infants death.  This instigated my writing this project. With the data I collected from park-lane general hospital, Enugu on the number of infants death and sex distribution.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Page Title Page Approval Page Dedication Acknowledgement Abstract Table Of Contents
CHAPTER ONE:INTRODUCTION 1.1Aims and objectives 1.2Limitations of the study 1.3Definition of terms
CHAPTER TWO:LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPTER THREE:RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1Method of data collections/source 3.2Problems encountered during the study 3.3Methods of analysis 3.4Estimation of population ratio 3.5Demographic data 3.6Chi-square 3.7The wilcoxon rank-sum test 3.8Data on births 3.9Data on death
CHAPTER FOUR:DATA ANALYSIS 4.1Estimation of population ratio 4.2Demographic data analysis 4.3Chi-square analysis 4.4Wilcoxon rank-sum test analysis
CHAPTER FIVE:SUMMARY OF FINDINGS,  CONCLUSIONS AND  RECOMMENDATION 5.1findings and conclusion
5.2Conclusion 5.3Recommendation Bibliography