Maternal health and nutritional Information form the cradle
of healthy genetic development and population health, safeguarding the right to
life and the quality of future livelihoods. Thus, this health and nutrition
information often enables most females of reproductive age 15 to 49 years,
globally, regionally and locally in western Kenya, to access quality,
affordable and reliable health education on maternal health care and nutrition,
and to mediate a primordial prevention and reduce maternal disease burden
rates. It also promotes health demography and human development, through
prevention and protection missions of public health, via community health
awareness and capacity building, empowering population health and promote a
healthy population. This is achieved by enabling regular health education on
maternal and child nutrition, for better primary prevention than cure among
rural females of the reproductive age and the larger population health through
synergistic community participation. It was these reasons that led to the
study, which aimed to evaluate the factors influencing increased accessibility
to maternal and nutritional health information and their effects on
reproductive health practices among rural females of reproductive age (15–49
years) in Western Kenya. Specifically, the study focuses on determining the
prevalence of population health in the accessibility to affordable maternal
health and balanced diet nutrition practices, determining the level of
community participation in the promotion on maternal child health nutritional
health education/information for quality
primordial prevention and decrease of maternal child health and
nutrition, and lastly assessing how social economic, social cultural and religious
beliefs influence the increased accessibility of maternal child health and
nutrition health information on maternal health nutrition practices among rural
females of the reproductive age in Western Kenya. The study also aimed to
achieve in global health goals number 3 and 17 of Vision 2030 and beyond, in
global health. Over 80% of community households have limited access to
efficient, affordable, reliable, and sustainable quality maternal child health
and nutrition information to promote primordial prevention in the general basic
health population, especially in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), through capacity
building of health service providers and community health workers (CHWs), as
their main sources of accessibility of maternal child health information, in
the large diversified society of demographic health population and development,
to improve the health population of the population health and their health live
hoods. The study exploited descriptive, cross-sectional, cohort and
triangulation designs. Purposive clusters, census retrospective and prospective
sampling techniques were used to explore the ante and postnatal mothers with
children aged 0-24 months as the target population. The questionnaire used as
tool of survey and key informant interview and focused group discussion (FGD)
was used in interview guides. Data was managed by SPSS version 27 and analysed
by cross-tabulation of descriptive and inferential statistics to provide a
significant inference. Results showed that health service providers and
community health workers were the main sources of providing quality health
education/information 97 (46.2%) and 69 (32.9%) respectively, with significant
support from the global health of RR (0. 463, 0.335). The prevalence of the
increased accessibility of maternal health nutrition was health/education
information 101 (48%). Community awareness on the uptake of balance dietary
intake from both animal proteins and plant was 67%, and majority opined
significant uptake of animal protein was determined by social cultural with P
value of 0.025, 95 % CI, and social economic has an influence remain
insignificant with OD 1.0 and RR (0.25, 0.345), due to existing synergistic
public private partnership global health to decrease unmated needs in the
inequality at maternal health and nutrition community households. Need to
advocate for more global health in public-private partnership participation to
mediate the unmet basic needs of maternal health, nutrition and need to partner
with urban reproductive of reproductive in issues of maternal health and nutrition,
mediate global maternal health and nutrition global health goals number 3 and
17 of Vision 2030 and beyond to sustain quality global livelihoods and
population health development.
Author(s) Details
Maurice Silali
Mount Kigali University, Rwanda.
Please see the book here :- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/msup/v3/5419
