Indiscriminate waste disposal habit has caused health related diseases. This study was carried out to investigate the perceived health consequences of indiscriminate waste disposal by the market women of Ijebu -Ode Township. A descriptive survey design was used for the study while market women's perception of health consequences of indiscriminate waste disposal was the main objective of this study. A total of 500 participants were drawn from the population as sample size for the study while stratified sampling technique was used to sectionalize the services and products being produced or sold by the market women. Simple random sampling was used to select 300 respondents from Ita -Osu market and 200 respondents from Oke Aje market. The instrument used for data collection was a self-developed Indiscriminate Waste Disposal and Health Consequences Questionnaire (IWDHCQ) with a reliability index of 0.83. Inferential statistics of chi-square was used to analyse the data at 0.05 level of significance. All the five hypotheses tested were not accepted which revealed that market women significantly perceived Lassa fever, Typhoid fever, Malaria fever, Food Contamination, Water Source Contamination as health consequences of indiscriminate waste disposal. Based on the findings, some recommendations were recommended to government, policy makers, health authorities and market women among were: health campaign on better waste disposal methods to market women, educating the market women in order to appreciate the health problems associated with indiscriminate waste disposal and the enforcement of sanitation laws by the appropriate authorities, just to mention a few.
The role of women in national development cannot be over-emphasized. Also, the place of science andtechnology is central to national advancement. No doubt, a country’s level of Scientific andTechnological advancement dictates the life style and future of her citizenry. This assertion madeWambusu (2005) to opine that science-led development is one of the major strategies in the waragainst what seems to be the African region’s endless hunger, poverty and ill-health. In addition,increased focus on formal and informal education, new technology, empowerment of women, gender,and sustainable development will undoubtedly bring the developing world closer to the developed worldand reduce the huge economic gap (Naugah 2003).
Family can be taken to mean a unit consisting of husband and wife, and their children, (Moses andAdewale 2002). Moses, Patric and Olarenwaju (2001) quoting Otite and Ogion (1981) reported thatfamily as a bio-social group, meaning that family has both biological and social aspects. Moses andAdewale (2002) quoting Murdrock (1965) defines family as a social group characterized by commonresidence, economic, cooperation, and reproduction. They reported that family is a group of personsunited by ties of marriage, blood, or adoption constituting a single house hold; interacting andcommunicating with each other in their respective social role of husband and wife, mother and father,brother and sister, as well as maintaining a common culture. Moses, Patrick, and Olarenwaju (2001)classified family into extended and nuclear family based on the kinship system; this system is based onblood relation and marriage. Based on Lifecycle family, they also grouped family into family oforientation and family of procreation. While on the basis of modernization, they further grouped familyinto traditional family, modern family, and post-modern family. It is basically a microcosm of largersociety, so any tension in family creates tension in the society at large.
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