AN INVESTIGATION ON INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY RATE OFREPORTED CASES OF MALARIA INANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

This study assessed the incidence and mortality of reported cases of malaria in Anambra State using mission owned hospitals as a case. Two mission hospitals randomly selected were Saint Charles Borromeo hospital Onitsha and Iyi-Enu hospital Ogidi. The data collected is for the period of thirteen years (2001-2013) .The statistical tools employed in this study were two- way Analysis of Variance, Multiple comparison test, Test for equality of proportions,Runs test and Trend analysis. The result of the estimated mortality rate revealed that Anambra State
experienced higher mortality in the year 2002 and lower mortality in the year 2011. The runs test conducted found the presence of trend for both incidence and mortality. Also, trend analysis was conducted using least square method, and the result revealed that the rate of change for incidence of malaria in Anambra State is 4.50 while that of mortality is -7.69. Findings from the analysis showed that the mean incidence of malaria in Anambra State does not differ significantly across the years under study while the mean incidence of malaria in Anambra State differs significantly across the age groups. It was also found that the mean malaria mortality in Anambra State is equal across the years indicating that it does not differ significantly. The result further revealed that the mean malaria mortality in Anambra State shows no equality across the age groups. The incidence and mortality with regards to malaria was found to be equal between males and females in Anambra State. In addition, it was found
that the proportion of the incidence of malaria is not equal across age groups and the proportion of malaria mortality is equally not equal across age groups in Anambra State.