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Ghana statistical service / MICS secretariat

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND HEALTH PARTNERS SUMMIT PRESENTATION ON MULTIPLE INDICATOR CLUSTER SURVEY (MICS) 2006. Ghana statistical service / MICS secretariat. Prepared by: faustina frempong-ainguah Venue: GIMPA. Outline of presentation. Scope of study Proportion of households using iodised salt

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Ghana statistical service / MICS secretariat

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  1. MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND HEALTH PARTNERS SUMMITPRESENTATION ON MULTIPLE INDICATOR CLUSTER SURVEY (MICS) 2006 Ghanastatisticalservice / MICS secretariat Prepared by: faustina frempong-ainguah Venue: GIMPA

  2. Outline of presentation • Scope of study • Proportion of households using iodised salt • Malnutrition and feeding patterns • Proportion of the population having access to improved source of drinking water • Waste disposal and health implications • Immunisation • Assistance during delivery and place of delivery • Contraceptive use among currently married women • HIV/AIDS knowledge • Sexual activity among the youth • Conclusion

  3. The survey had three main target population: women and men aged 15-49 years living in private households, and all children less than 60 months in these selected households. Four instruments were used: the household, individual and <5 questionnaires Household information solicited includes identifying legible respondents for individual interviews, consumption of iodized salt, water and sanitation, cooking fuel and others. Issues studied included maternal and newborn health, marriage, contraception, HIV among others Informants for these children were either their mothers or caretakers from the same household Issues surveyed: birth registration, early learning, immunisation, nutrition, care of illness and anthropometry Scope of the survey

  4. Percentage of households consuming iodized salt in Ghana; 2006 • Micronutrients are essential for the metabolic processes in the body and plays a major role in the nutrition and health of an individual. • Disorders induced by dietary iodine deficiency include goitre, impaired mental function, retarded mental and physical development. • The results show that only 3 out of 10 households in Ghana are consuming adequately iodized salt. • The regional distribution shows variation between 11 and 53%

  5. Regional distribution of households consuming adequately iodized salt

  6. Malnutrition among children U5 years in Ghana • Nutritional status is an essential element in the total concept of health. The physical growth pattern of a child constitutes a useful criterion for judging his or her nutritional status. When growth fails, malnutrition is then expected. • Thus, the healthy growth and development of our children today is the foundation of the wealth of our nation in the next generation. • Even though all three indices have improved from 1999-2003 and 2002-2006 still a little over 20% of these children are chronically malnourished, 18% are underweight while 5 % are wasted and these have adverse effect on the health of our children. • Children who survive this period suffer functional disadvantages as adults, such as diminished intellectual performance, low work capacity, and increased risk of delivery complications, Martorell (1999).

  7. Percentage distribution of children aged 0-15months by feeding pattern, in Ghana, 2006

  8. Percentage distribution of the populationby source of drinking water • Availability and access to improved source of drinking water may, to a large extent minimise the prevalence of water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid, cholera among household members and especially children. • Overall 78 percent of the population have access to improved source of drinking water. • Of this improved water source only 49 percent is from piped water. • Twenty –two percent of the population still drink from unimproved water sources. Here again with surface water form 59 percent.

  9. Percentage distribution of the populationby source of drinking water

  10. Percentage of the population with access to improved sanitary facilities. • Availability of toilet facilities in households ensure more hygienic means of human waste disposal. • Inadequate disposal of human excreta and personal hygiene can affect the health of the population especially children under five years. • The survey results show that 61 percent of the population have access to improved sanitary facilities. • Sanitary differentials at the regional level are significant. Whereas over four in every five people have access to improved toilet facilities in Ashanti region that cannot be said of the three northern regions. • Majority of the population in the three northern regions have no toilet facilities.

  11. Lack of sanitary facilities and improper disposal

  12. Percentage of children aged 0-59 months with diarrhoea in the two weeks prior to the survey and treatment with oral rehydration solution (ORS) or other oral rehydration treatment (ORT), 2006

  13. Percentage of children aged 12-23 months currently vaccinated against all childhood diseases in Ghana, 2006

  14. Percentage of women currently married or cohabiting who are using modern contraceptive method. • The level of current use of contraception is a key determinant of fertility. • The results show that only 16 percent of women currently married are using any form of contraception. • This reinforcespronatalist nature of the African and for that matter the Ghanaian. • Use of modern contraception is lowest in Western and Northern regions. • Modern contraception has declined due to the withdrawal of funding for their programme. • The Reproductive health unit need to look at this situation as this might be the reason for the slow down in fertility decline in the country over the last five years.

  15. Assistance during delivery and place of delivery

  16. Percentage distribution of women aged 20-49 in marriage or cohabiting before their 18th birthday • Early marriage is compromising on the development of the individual

  17. HIV/AIDS and Sexual Behaviour among men and women aged 15-49, 2006 • One of the most important prerequisites for reducing the rate of HIV infection is accurate knowledge of how HIV is transmitted and strategies for preventing transmission. Correct information is the first step toward raising awareness and giving people the tools to protect themselves from infection. • Misconceptions about HIV are common, can confuse people and also hinder prevention efforts. Although different regions are likely to have variations in misconceptions some appear to be universal (for example that sharing food can transmit HIV or mosquito bites can transmit HIV). • The indicators to measure this goal as well as the MDG of reducing HIV infections by half include improving the level of knowledge of HIV and its prevention, and changing behaviours to prevent further spread of the disease. The HIV module was administered to men and women 15-49 years of age. • In Ghana, 96 percent of men and 97 percent of women have heard of AIDS. However, the percentage of men and women who know of all three main ways of preventing HIV transmission is 60 and 56 for men and women respectively.

  18. Percentage of men and women aged 15-49 who know HIV/AIDS transmission can be prevented by any of the following

  19. Identify misconceptions concerning HIV/AIDS • Information was solicited from respondents (men and women) who could correctly identify misconceptions concerning HIV. The indicator derived was derived based on the two most common and relevant misconceptions in Ghana , that HIV can be transmitted by supernatural means, mosquito bites and or that a healthy looking person cannot be infected . Though results not presented, here • Information gathered include whether respondents know that HIV cannot be transmitted by sharing food, and that HIV can be transmitted by sharing needles. Of the interviewed respondents only 41 percent of men and 28 percent of women reject the two most common misconceptions and know that a healthy-looking person can be infected. • Sixty-one percent of men and 49 percent of women know that HIV cannot be transmitted by supernatural means, and 64 percent of men and 56 percent of women know that HIV cannot be transmitted by mosquito bites while 78 and 75 percent of men and women respectively know that a healthy-looking person can be infected. • Seventy-five percent of women and 79 percent of men know people cannot get the AIDS virus by sharing food with a person who has AIDS. • Knowledge of HIV transmission by sharing needles is 96 percent for men and 95 percent for women.

  20. Sexual activity among young men and women aged 15-24 years

  21. Thank you for your attention!!!

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