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What is Maternal Knowledge

Chapter 9
Handbook of Research on Advancing Health Education through Technology
Maternal knowledge enables women to know more about their health issues and to take appropriate steps towards enhancing their health status. For example, ability to understand appointment slips, medical forms, medication labels, patients’ educational materials and hospital clinics signs easily will afford women the opportunity to take appropriate care of their health and that of their children.
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Literacy and Decision Making on Health Issues among Married Women in Southwest Nigeria
Adejoke Clara Babalola (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9494-1.ch009
Abstract
It has been observed that women lag behind in participating in decision making in Nigeria as the number of women in key positions is nothing to write home about. The study is set to determine the level of women participation in health related decision making and investigate the effect of literacy on women's participation in health related decision making. A random sampling method was used to select three states; and from the three states three Local Government Areas (LGAs) and from the 3 (LGAs) 64 to 68 eligible respondents were selected by purposive sampling technique, making a total number of 600 respondents. Questionnaire was used to elicit information from the respondents.
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