Abstract
This paper examines the impact of poverty on health-related issues in the northern part of Ghana for the period between 1980 and 2017. A secondary data from Ghana Statistical Service Department and the World Bank database was use for the study and a Stata was used in estimating the impact.Results from the study show that, poverty has a great influence on health in the Northern part of Ghana. The study also revealed that, health facilities available in the regions are not fully equipped to solve infant and maternal issues in the regions. Trained public health workers and health services providers are inadequate in the regions hence health education is lacking among pregnant and lactating mothers in the areas of nutrition and malaria prevention.The study, therefore, recommends that government should improve the standard of living among people in the northern regions by providing job opportunities for citizens. There should also be an enhancing health services in the regions, assisting peasants’ farmers with modern methods of crop production, and providing equal opportunities for men and women in the regions. Keywords : poverty; health; child mortality; climate DOI : 10.7176/RHSS/9-8-03 Publication date : April 30 th 2019
Highlights
Poverty has all the time been a portion of the globe, yet the advanced countries where it is imagined that every person is wealthy or well off, some persons are homeless, they find themselves surviving on the streets due to poverty
The undeveloped nations who have discover themselves in various financial conditions; it’s not very exciting on the issue of poverty, as large number of individuals live less than one dollar a day
Our hypothesis that poverty has a bad result on health and the people of the three Northern regions is accepted, based on the probability F test which is 0.000, before a probability can be accepted if the F test should be less than
Summary
Poverty has all the time been a portion of the globe, yet the advanced countries where it is imagined that every person is wealthy or well off, some persons are homeless, they find themselves surviving on the streets due to poverty. The undeveloped nations who have discover themselves in various financial conditions; it’s not very exciting on the issue of poverty, as large number of individuals live less than one dollar a day. The agenda of ending poverty global by the year 2015 through the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), but poverty still has a strong effect on various countries in the world. From the look of things, the agenda of the MDG has a long way to go, as the economy of the world, day in day out, falls into crisis due to one reason or the other. Poverty is not a simple notion to define. The dominant Western definition since World War II has defined poverty in monetary terms, using levels of income or consumption to measure poverty(Grusky, Kanbur, & Sen, 2006) and defining the underprivileged by a census of those who are below a given income/consumption level or 'poverty line'(Lipton & Ravallion, 1995)
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