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Title:A thirty-year follow-up study of the Ibarapa community health program
Author:Barber, C. RenateISNI
Year:1995
Periodical:African Anthropology (ISSN 1024-0969)
Volume:2
Issue:1
Period:March
Pages:131-143
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Nigeria
West Africa
Subjects:health
public health
Development and Technology
Health and Nutrition
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Medicine, Nutrition, Public Health
Health surveys
Ibarapa (Nigeria)
Community health
Abstract:In the early 1960s the Rockefeller Foundation funded seven projects throughout the developing world whose aim was to improve health care in rural areas. One such project was the Ibarapa Community Health Project in Igboora, western Nigeria. A record system was set up at the beginning of the programme. In 1965, the then resident medical officers at Igboora analysed the patients seen from July 1964 to June 1965. This provided a baseline for comparing patterns of attendance at the inception of the project. The present author returned to the centre some thirty years later to abstract a sample of records. She wanted to get a general picture of what impact - if any - the continued presence of the project has had on the health of this community. Some 2000 records of patients were analysed both by birth cohorts and by listing diagnoses in five-year intervals. Samples from birth and death records for these five-year periods were also analysed. The data revealed an improvement in health and health care in Ibarapa over the period in question, and this seems to suggest that public health is of greater benefit than clinical medicine in developing communities. Bibliogr., sum.
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