WAYS OF ERADICATING COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AMONG PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS IN OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE
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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.
- Are communicable diseases common among primary pupils in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government Area?
- Do the pupils in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government Area learn in a dirty environment that will lead to the spread of communicable diseases among them?
- Are the pupils and the teachers aware of the prevalence of communicable diseases in the primary school in the local government area?
- 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;
- To identify the communicable diseases that is prevalent in primary schools in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government Area of Edo State.
- To find out the effects of communicable diseases on the pupils and the society at large.
- To outline the various causes of the diseases.
- To reduce and control the diseases among primary school pupils in Ikpoba OkhaLocal Government Area of Edo State.
- To examine the nature and scope of communicable diseases.
SIGNIFICA NCE OF THE STUDY
The importance of this study cannot be overemphasized.
- 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.
- 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.
- It helps the teachers to prevent a crowdy classroom in order to give room for ventilation.
- It helps the teachers to care about the health of the students and to know how to treat the infected pupil.
- It helps in continuous training of teachers on disease control.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- What are the prevalent communicable diseases in the local government area?
- How can communicable diseases be controlled?
- Do communicable diseases have any effect on primary school children?
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