ABSTRACT
The research aim to investigate marketing students' knowledge; attitude towards Hepatitis B and willingness to associate with infected people in order to contribute to the body of knowledge that in the area of infectious disease in school health. The paper was based on quantitative exploratory survey research. The sample size was 151 selected through convenient sample method. There were 111 males and 38 females with 2 missing responses. The questionnaires were self written and personally administered to the respondents. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics such as percentages and frequency count. Results indicated that respondents have fair knowledge of Hepatitis B and positive and negative attitudes towards some issues. It is recommended that future research must increase sample size and extend the study to other department of the school and the staff of the school. It is also recommended that aggressive method be used to ensure that people are vaccinated to protect them
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Attitude , Data Collection , Marketing of Health Services , StudentsABSTRACT
Women's utilization of maternal health care facility is an important health issue with regard to the wellbeing and survival of both the mother and her child during childbirth which has implications on thematernal and child mortality rate in human society. However; in most third world countries and Nigeria in particular there are certain factors that inhibit pregnant and women in patronizing maternal health facilities during childbirth. It is these factors that this paper investigated among pregnant women in the two Local Government Areas of Borno State. The methods of data collection adopted in the study were the survey methods: Seventy eight (78) questionnaires were administered; six (6) in-depth interviews and four sessions of focus-group discussion (three sessions in each of the 2 LG Areas) were conducted