Address cancer awareness among rural women: A case study of Morogoro rural district

dc.contributor.authorKotoroi, Gladness
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-22T12:12:03Z
dc.date.available2024-04-22T12:12:03Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionA research paper submitted to the international journal of scientific and research publications, Volume.5, No. 6, of 2015
dc.description.abstractThe paper aims at establishing strategies for improving access to, and use of information on cancer by women in Morogoro Rural District for addressing cancer. Specific objectives were to: assess the status of cancer awareness among women in Morogoro Rural District, identify challenges encountered by rural women when accessing information on cancer and to recommend strategies that will enhance dissemination and use of information on cancer. Social survey method was used for conducting this study. The data were collected from a total of 100 respondents through questionnaires, interviews, focus group discussions and observations. The respondents were drawn from four villages of two wards of the study area. The findings revealed that cancer is still not well known by rural women. The findings indicated that rural women faced many challenges on access and use information on cancer. They had limited access to information on cancer namely: unawareness about cancer disease, levels of illiteracy, lack of time, limited sources of information, and unavailability of proper places at which information could be accessed The study recommended that in order to deal with the problem of illiteracy adult education programme should be organized. On the other hand the study recommends that several media be used for disseminating information so that information can be accessed conveniently by different stakeholders according to their preferences. On top of that, health workers in collaboration with other stakeholders, should be encouraged to diversify ways of disseminating health information. The government should also set aside budget for dissemination of information on cancer as is the case for other diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS.
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dc.identifier.citationAPA
dc.identifier.issn2250-3153
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholar.mzumbe.ac.tz/handle/123456789/709
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInternational journal of scientific and research publications
dc.subjectCancer awareness
dc.subjectrural women
dc.subjectinformation need
dc.subjectinformation dissemination
dc.subjectsources of information
dc.titleAddress cancer awareness among rural women: A case study of Morogoro rural district
dc.typeArticle
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