CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN’S INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES ON ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES AT THE HOUSEHOLD LEVEL:A case of Vision Fund Tanzania in Morogoro Municipality

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dc.creatorMWAIGAGA, GRACE NAHASON
dc.date2018-06-26T14:43:49Z
dc.date2018-06-26T14:43:49Z
dc.date2017
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-05T09:50:42Z
dc.date.available2021-05-05T09:50:42Z
dc.descriptionA Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Award of the Degree of Master of Business Administration (Corporate Management) of Mzumbe University
dc.descriptionThe study was carried out at Vision Fund Tanzania, Morogoro branch. This study explored the contributions of women‘s income generating activities on household access to health services in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania. Specifically, the study sought to identify types and ways of women‘s income generating activities done, to find out the causes of women‘s income generating activities, and to determine the contributions of women‘s income generating activities on household access health services. The main objective of the study was exploring the contributions of women‘s income generating activities on household access to health services. Both primary and secondary data were used. The former used questionnaire, interviews and observation while the latter used document reviews. Simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select respondents for data collection. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected, collected data were edited (purified) and coded. Descriptive analysis dominated where frequencies and percentages were computed where possible content analysis was also affected, SSPS facilitated in the analysis process. Sample size was 100 respondents including four staffs and 96 clients from Vision Fund Tanzania. This study found that there were six major types of women‘s income generating activities namely small business, farming, livestock keeping, food business, farming product business and clothes business. It was also found that there were six causes of women‘s income generating activities. These are; reducing the much dependable to husband, reducing family economy challenges, presence of gender equality and equity, make life improvement, increase the cooperation with community and Education of IGA presence in globally. It was found that there were three contributions of women‘s income generating activities on household access to health services. These are personal access to health services, family access to health services and community access to health services. This study concluded that women‘s income generating activities crosscut in all levels of society including personal, family and community. Therefore, this study recommends that deliberate efforts to improve women‘s income generating activities for household access to health services. Also the in-service training and review of microfinance policy should be undertaken in order to improve women‘s income generating activities and thus high household access to health services. Furthermore the government should provide enough funds to the microfinance firms in order to enhance effective women‘s income generating activities for household access to health services.
dc.identifierAPA
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11192/2154
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11192/2154
dc.languageen
dc.publisherMzumbe University
dc.subjectWOMEN’S INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES, NCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES, ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES, HOUSEHOLD LEVEL
dc.titleCONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN’S INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES ON ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES AT THE HOUSEHOLD LEVEL:A case of Vision Fund Tanzania in Morogoro Municipality
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