The Role Of Radio And Interpersonal Communication In Eradication Of Malaria

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CHAPTER ONE

• INTRODUCTION

• 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

  The Malaria eradication campaign successfully eliminated and controlled the diseases in some countries with temperate climate and in other countries where the transmission was low and moderate. However the emergence of drugs and insecticide resistance coupled with concerns about feasibility and sustainability of tackling malaria in areas with weak infrastructure and high transmission brought an end to the eradication era. This included the bulk of international funding for malaria and dissemination of malaria programme on mass media.

  The radio is an important ally in any public health situation, it serves the means of being a source of correcting information as well as an advocate for correcting health behaviours. The radio broadcasts were used to train health professional to treat diseases, to prevent the deaths of infant and young from malaria.

  Interpersonal communications are arguably the most utilized and effective method for spreading public health message especially in endorsing disease prevention or eradication of disease.The radio also created awareness to the government and other people to come to the aid of the people with infrastructure and fund for treatment of infected persons, there they used  interpersonal communication to organise seminars and talks show where the people are being educated on everything they need to know about the disease and how to prevent it from reoccurring.

  Nevertheless in Nigeria, this disease affected more people because they lack knowledge on the cause and prevention of the disease. The rate of the disease drew the attention of the media who noticed that many people contact the disease out of ignorance and lack of social amenities, the media use radio because of its characteristics of breaking all language barriers, cheaper to afford and wide reach to tell the people precautionary measures to take so as not to contact this disease.

  It is in this sense, communication are designed to bring about behaviour change which will play an essential role in guiding people towards adopting the right malaria interventions. However, the research wants to examine the role of radio and interpersonal communication in eradication of malaria.

• 1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Malaria is said to be a serious problems facing Nigeria most especially rural communities. Some of these problems are caused as a result of the following.

Ø Inadequate social amenities

Ø Lack of Adequate exposure to the disease

Ø Ignorance of people towards the disease

This and many more makes the researcher embarked on this research to find out the main roles radio and interpersonal communication play or the ideal roles they are meant to play towards the total eradication of the disease.

• 1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The research work has the following objectives:

• 1.To ascertain or discover how interpersonal communication and radio educate and expose man to his environment.

• 2. To ascertain the roles of both radio and interpersonal communication towards the eradication of malaria

• 3.To know the extent at which communication reduced malaria among people.

• 4.To examine the problems and prospects of interpersonal communication and radio in the eradication of malaria.

• 1.4  RESEARCH QUESTION

• 1.Is communication necessary in the effort of eradicating material?

• 2.Is interpersonal communication more effective than radio in treatment of malaria?

• 3.Can radio be of far reach and generally understandable than interpersonal communication when it comes to message transmission?

• 4. Are radio and interpersonal communication suitable as medium of communication for this eradication of disease?

• 1.5  SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The study is aimed at exposing the roles of radio and interpersonal communication in eradication of malaria.

The research will enable the various radio stations and individuals to understand and appreciate their strength and weakness in order to know areas to improve on curbing malaria.

From this, the knowledge of the ruralities will be widened to initiate and carryout eradication programme on their own when the need arises.

To student as well especially those of them in the health sectors they can learn on how communication enhances the eradication of malaria in rural areas.

It will also guide organizations who fight seriously against this disease on the best way to approach eradication programme especially in rural areas where the disease is rampant by interpersonal communication and radio will make the whole programme.

Researchers who may want to carry out research in this area or related aspect will find this material as reference point.

It will also guide the government to see to it that they get rural dwellers involved in any of the project they are embarking on especially eradication projects because they constitute 70% of the populace.

• 1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

  The scope of the study is to use the people of Ara community to determine the roles of interpersonal communication and radio has played in the eradication of malaria.

  Due to the fact that most of the people living in Ara are conversant with the use of radio which cuts across language barriers and interpersonal communication made the study easier.

  This area was chosen by the researcher so that it will enable them generate data that will bring answers to the research questionsFor the effectiveness of the study, questionnaires will be used to generate data that will bring answers to the research questions.

  For the execution of this work, the time frame of the study is between December 2014-July 2015.

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