Open AccessSpatial Variability of Poverty and Primary Health Facilities in Rural Areas of Ayedaade Local Government, Osun State, Nigeria
Author(s) -
Afolabi Olabamiji,
Olayinka Akinsumbo Ajala
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
interdisciplinary journal of rural and community studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2710-2572
DOI - 10.51986/ijrcs-2021.vol3.01.03
Subject(s) - poverty , socioeconomics , local government area , geography , likert scale , local government , neighbourhood (mathematics) , health services , environmental health , economic growth , business , medicine , statistics , population , economics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology
This paper examined the distribution pattern of health centres to determine the poverty level due to spatial variability of accessibility to health care facilities in rural areas of Ayedaade Local Government, Osun State, Nigeria. Three hundred sixty-eight household heads from 4,539 households in 25 selected villages were sampled based on Slovin’s principle. Buffer and average nearest neighbourhood analyses were performed in ArcGIS 10.4 software to determine the distance covered to the nearest health centre and the spatial location pattern of health centres. $1.90 per day international poverty line, 5 Likert Scale, ANOVA, and correlation were used. The inverse relationship at r = - 0.447 revealed that the more the poverty, the less the poor's capability to cater to their health service. It calls for some forms of intervention by the government to reduce health services cost for rural dwellers.