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Comparative Study of Malaria Risk factors and Access to Healthcare Services By Batwa and Non-Batwa Communities in Kanungu District Southwestern Uganda
Health Systems
Description
This study focused on risk factors for contracting malaria and access to health centre/hospital-based healthcare services by making a comparison of the Batwa indigenous people and their non-Batwa neighbours in Kanungu district. The researcher investigated how the two independent variables namely: risk factors for contracting malaria and health seeking behaviour of the two population groups impinged on the dependent variable: access to health centre/hospital-based case management of malaria. This chapter presents the following sections: a background to the study which sets the context to the problem under study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, conceptual framework,