This work aimed to contribute to the identification of the socio-economic determinants of use of curative services in the MWANA health zone, during the year 2023. The data being collected by survey questionnaire at 311.
The data were entered and analyzed in Excel and using JASP 0.18.1.0 software (descriptive statistics, binomial test and CHAPIRO WILK test. To obtain the results, we randomly selected two sub-Villages in each area of health Once in the AS, the direction to take was drawn at random by the so-called «bottle» method. With the random number table, the investigators had to draw a house at random. and start the survey with this house They had to continue the survey with the second closest house and so on until reaching the required number of households.
The results show that the Prayer Room is the subject of the first therapeutic recourse with 41% of our respondents followed by pharmaceutical pharmacies and health structures not integrated by the area, then it allowed us to describe the socio-economic characteristics of the households such as non-membership of mutual health insurance (95.5%), poverty (75.7%), religious belief (73%) and low level of education (64.4%) negatively impacting use of curative services the health zone; 81% of expenses are oriented towards health for respondents who used the integrated curative service and only 26% are oriented towards health for respondents who used informal routes.
This reseach was initiated to study the eating habits of househods living in a context of malnutrition in the Miti-Murhesa heath zone, with the aim of contributing to the improvement of eating habits. To achieve this, three Heath areas were chosen. The households are those with at least one member suffering from severe acute malnutrition was being treated in a severe acute malnutrition management program (are cases), their direct neighbors without a story of malnutrition were selected as controls. A survey questionnaire was admimistered to mothers (preferably). The results show that illiterale fathers are numerous among the cases, 47 compared 22 among the controls. The control households have more properly than the cases (p=0,00154) and are also the control households which have a higher monthly income than the cases (p=0,00191). Most foods were consumed more in the control group than in the cases and frequency of meals was also lower for cases than their controls.
There is thus a positive association between the socio-economic level of households and food consuption.
A study on the availability, accessibility and consumption of fruits and vegetables was carried out in the Miti-Murhesa heath zone, with the aim of contributing to knowledge on safety and eating habits based on fruits and vegetables in households. To do this, a households inquiry was carried out. A sample of 384 households was formed and divided into axes while retaining all the Health areas in the zone. The results on availability, accessibility and consumption show that 38.8 % of households have the fruits, 51.8 % have access to fruits and 82.0 % consume the fruits with an average of 3 days per week. Regarding vegetables, 74.2 % of households have them, 81.0 % have access to them and 96.1 % consume them with an average of 4 days per week. A correlation was observed between the father’s profession, the level of education of the parents and consumption fruits and vegetables in the households. Averall, if we also take into account the frequency, the availability, accessibility and consumption of fruits and vegetables one records that they are low in Miti-Murhesa Heath zone.