Urban health dynamics and population variables: a case study of environmental sanitation of Maiduguri metropolis in Nigeria

Provision of environmental sanitation is of great importance to the health status of the people. However, the success may severely depend on the effective accesse to information and education which are communicated to the public. The purpose of this study is to examine the degree of correlation of demographic factors and environmental sanitation education on individual’s health status of residents in Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State, Nigeria. To this aim, Survey design is used for the study. The population for this study was selected of all the residents in Maiduguri Metropolis, and. 384 respondents were sampled. Descriptive statistics of mean, standard deviation, standard error, frequency count and percentages is used to organize and describe demographic information while inferential statistics of multiple regressions was used to test the hypothesis at significance level of 0.05. Results shows that demographic factors and environmental sanitation education correlate with the health status of the residents, in Maiduguri Metropolis in Nigeria.