Society For Family Health Case Study

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Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading public health nongovernmental organizations in Nigeria founded in 1985. As a nonprofit organization, it is committed to selfless service to humanity especially the poor and vulnerable throughout Nigeria. It works with private and public sector to adopt social marketing and communication to improve access to essential health information, services and products to motivate the adoption of healthy behaviors. The public health organization is involved in malaria prevention and treatment, HIV/AIDs prevention, maternal child healthcare, family planning and reproductive health, provision of safe and clean water systems.
Malaria has the highest burden of disease in Nigeria with an estimated 300,000 children dying of malaria each year. It accounts for over 25% of infant mortality, 30% of childhood mortality and 11% of maternal mortality. Society for Family Health malaria
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Only one in five rural households have clean water at home and most families mostly collect water from unimproved and unsafe sources like rivers and streams. As a response to this need, SFH and partner services international (PSI) launched its safe water project with the goal of reducing childhood morbidity and mortality while minimizing diarrheal disease among the general population as a whole.
Total Quality Management (TQM) is defined according to the business dictionary as a holistic approach to long term success that views continuous improvement in all aspects of an organization as a process and not as a short term goal. It aims to radically transform an organization through progressive changes in the attitudes, practices, structures and systems. TQM can therefore be said to be an integrated organizational effort which is designed to continuously improve quality of any organization at every

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