SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.0 Introduction

This chapter discusses what various scholars have written about the research findings;

5.1 Summary of findings

The results shows that there was much variation in the data in urban centers compared to rural areas for the last 10 years and the prevalence was high in towns compared to villages for last 10 years.

The study shows that rural residence had mean total malaria cases of 2988.23 with a standard deviation of 457.718 while urban residence had mean of 314.32 with a standard deviation of 142.437, this indicates that majority of the people in rural areas have more malaria cases than urban areas.

The results further show that most of the government should invest more programmes in fighting against malaria cases in rural areas.

The results further indicates that the Eastern region had the highest registered number of malaria cases with highest mean of 1022.03 and standard deviation of 192.211 followed by Northern with a mean of 902.48 and the standard deviation 158.922. Western and central regions had mean malaria cases of 578.06 and 787.23 with the standard deviation of 184.080 and 154.660 respectively.

According to the findings when malaria cases in the north, east and west equals to zero then malaria cases is 604.537, while a unit increase in malaria cases in central will on average lead to 0.366 decrease in the north, this is statistically insignificant since the P-value, (0.082) >0.05 thus the null hypothesis is accepted, therefore there is no difference in malaria prevalence across regions.

5.2 Conclusion

The study concludes that there is variation in malaria prevalence across the region some regions had higher malaria cases than others.

The study also concludes that malaria cases are on the rise.

The study also states that the variations in the total malaria cases are explained by the changes in the malaria cases of both rural and urban areas.

The study also concludes that malaria is high in the rural areas than urban areas.

5.3 Recommendation

The study recommends more infighting malaria so that the challenges brought by malaria are worked upon.

The study also recommends that the government should increase the number of health workers in the government hospital

Regions with high malaria levels should increase findings for the rural health facilities especially in northern Uganda.

5.4 Areas of further study

The study recommends the following areas for further study;

The influence of mosquito nets on malaria prevention
The influence of foreign aid on the influence of education of malaria prevalence in Africa.
The influence of malaria medicine on malaria prevention