HOUSING TYPE, HOUSEHOLD WATER MANAGEMENT AND CHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES IN NIGERIA

Child mortality rate in Nigeria is one of the highest in the world. Environmental issues like poor housing and non-improved drinking water source are major challenges to improved child health outcomes.
The main objective of this study is to examine the relationship between housing type, household drinking water and child morbidity in Nigeria.
The study will employ secondary data. Secondary data for the study will be extracted from the 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health survey (NDHS). Data on ever married women aged 15-49 years that have had at least a child within the last five years will be extracted for 33,385 women sampled from the NDHS (2008). Data will be analyzed using appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics.
It is expected that there will be relationship between housing type, source of drinking water and incidence of childhood diseases. Also, it is expected that there will be association between housing type and treatment of childhood diseases.
The findings from the study are expected to give more insight to the influence of the environmental factors (housing and water) on child heath outcomes. The study will also document areas of priorities for achieving improved child health