Illness and food security in Rufiji district, Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorKayunze, Kim A.
dc.contributor.authorMwageni, Eleuther A.
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-24T11:19:24Z
dc.date.available2023-07-24T11:19:24Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionJournal of Biology, Agriculture and Healthcare, Vol.3, No.4,en_US
dc.description.abstractA socio-economic economic survey was conducted among 225 households comprising comp rising 1,193 individuals in Rufiji District, Tanzania, in 2006 to: (a) ) determine the number of people who were ill; (b) find the commonest illnesses; and (c) compare food security in households where members were ill for fewer days and where they were ill for more days. days It was found that 13% of the individuals were ill during the survey and that the top ten i illnesses were malaria (29.9%), joints/body pains (19.5%), fever (9.1%), chest/TB (5.8%), headache (5.8%), stomach ache (4.5%), asthma (3.3%), eyes (3.3%), UTI/STI (2.6%), and diarrhoea (2.0%). Multiple one one-way way ANOVA comparisons of mean differences in dietary ry energy consumed (DEC) in five groups of the households based on the number of days that the individuals were ill showed significant difference between the fourth and the fifth groups (p = 0.021). It is concluded that with few days of household members being b eing ill food security in terms of DEC is affected little, but that with more days of illness, food security is substantially affected. Therefore, if health services are not improved in rural areas, particularly in Rufiji District, the problem of low food production leading to food insecurity will linger on. It is recommended that the Government and other stakeholders should scale-up scale up health interventions in rural areas, among other strategies, in n order to improve food security.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2224-3208 3208
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5448
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIISTEen_US
dc.subjectIllnessen_US
dc.subjectFood securityen_US
dc.subjectDietary energy consumeden_US
dc.subjectHealth servicesen_US
dc.titleIllness and food security in Rufiji district, Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.urlhttps://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JBAH/article/download/5356/5335en_US

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