The paper X-rayed the need for professional preparation of health education teachers in order to ... more The paper X-rayed the need for professional preparation of health education teachers in order to help; influence the health knowledge, attitudes and practices of the school children, personnel and the general community; positively by providing conducive learning environment. It also looked at the responsibilities of the health education teacher and the need for his certification. The paper recommends that adequate fund be provided for higher institutions offering health education programme in preparing health education teachers.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is virus that weakens the immune system of the body through de... more Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is virus that weakens the immune system of the body through destruction of the white blood cells. Whereas, AIDS term as; acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a disease due to the infection of HIV. Knowledge of health, and practices among teachers of primary school are scanty. Studies indicated that few teachers have heard or even became aware that HIV/AIDS is a viral infectious, and some of them lacked the knowledge about its mode of transmission with low attitudinal behaviours. Thus, this review paper discusses some health promotion measures and relevant information regarding, how the use of educational intervention in primary school teachers, could help in reducing the incidence cases of HIV/AIDS in Africa. We therefore recommend effective educational intervention programmes should be set for primary school teachers, in order that the teachers and the students could have a sound knowledge of health practices that will change their attitude which in turn reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission.
This paper discusses the challenges Nigerian teachers are facing in public secondary schools [Gov... more This paper discusses the challenges Nigerian teachers are facing in public secondary schools [Government owned schools] and its effects on the present rising students dropouts. Secondary school in Nigeria is an educational stage to be attended by students after primary school and before tertiary institutions. This is a period for youth direction on subject specialization, leading to issues of professionalization base on subject compartmentalization and choice of higher institution. The significance attached to this requires productive school climate with efficient resources for teaching and learning. Nigeria public secondary schools climate are facing the challenges of inadequate professional capability, poor school preparatory ground and absence of facilities to cater for students. In terms of curriculum contents there is a total mismatch between stated policy on education and the provision of teaching facilities and structural preparation. These over stretched public secondary school problems which cannot be managed by authority and be accepted by education clients had led to frequent absenteeism, poor performance and constant student's dropout. This easily predicts the future of unproductive youths and these classes of citizens will be unskilled and unproductive. Thus, teachers are strongly finding it difficult to meet up to the expectations of teaching profession, because the school climate is not conducive for both teaching [teacher] and learning [student].
The paper x-rayed the challenges Nigerian Teachers are facing and its effect on the present insec... more The paper x-rayed the challenges Nigerian Teachers are facing and its effect on the present insecurity in the Nigerian school environment. The significance attached to our learning institutions (primary, secondary and tertiary institutions) require productive school climate with efficient resources for teaching and learning. Nigerian public schools are facing the challenges of inadequate professional capability, poor school preparatory
A survey study was conducted to determine health practices among students attending tertiary inst... more A survey study was conducted to determine health practices among students attending tertiary institutions in Kano state, Nigeria. A valid and reliable questionnaire coined HPIHLQ was self-administered to the study population of 600 students (aged 18-41years) across the selected tertiary institutions in the State, comprising of: 150 students from University, 200 each from Colleges of Education and 50 students from College of Health Sciences. Our objective was to investigate on the health instruction, health services, healthful school living, school home and community relationship towards influencing student's health practices to improve their living standards. Of 600 students, 400(66.7%) completed the questionnaire. The gender percentages of the respondents were 81.8 for male and 18.3 for female respectively. And most (54.3%) of the respondents were unmarried, 179(44.8%) were married and 4(1.0%) were divorced. Five of the factors associated with determinates of health practices were correlated and the result for relationship between determinates and health practices showed significant correlation(r = .462, p< .05), likewise between instructions and health practices (r = .477, p< .05), between health services and health practices (r = .602, p< .05), between health living and health practices (r = .880, p< .05) and between School, Home, Community with health practices (r = .804, p<.05). Based on this finding, we can conclude that health components are significant factors in ensuring effective health practices among the students of tertiary institutions in the state. Therefore, the need for the concerned authorities to encourage health related provisions in all schools.
The paper X-rayed the need for professional preparation of health education teachers in order to ... more The paper X-rayed the need for professional preparation of health education teachers in order to help; influence the health knowledge, attitudes and practices of the school children, personnel and the general community; positively by providing conducive learning environment. It also looked at the responsibilities of the health education teacher and the need for his certification. The paper recommends that adequate fund be provided for higher institutions offering health education programme in preparing health education teachers.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is virus that weakens the immune system of the body through de... more Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is virus that weakens the immune system of the body through destruction of the white blood cells. Whereas, AIDS term as; acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a disease due to the infection of HIV. Knowledge of health, and practices among teachers of primary school are scanty. Studies indicated that few teachers have heard or even became aware that HIV/AIDS is a viral infectious, and some of them lacked the knowledge about its mode of transmission with low attitudinal behaviours. Thus, this review paper discusses some health promotion measures and relevant information regarding, how the use of educational intervention in primary school teachers, could help in reducing the incidence cases of HIV/AIDS in Africa. We therefore recommend effective educational intervention programmes should be set for primary school teachers, in order that the teachers and the students could have a sound knowledge of health practices that will change their attitude which in turn reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission.
This paper discusses the challenges Nigerian teachers are facing in public secondary schools [Gov... more This paper discusses the challenges Nigerian teachers are facing in public secondary schools [Government owned schools] and its effects on the present rising students dropouts. Secondary school in Nigeria is an educational stage to be attended by students after primary school and before tertiary institutions. This is a period for youth direction on subject specialization, leading to issues of professionalization base on subject compartmentalization and choice of higher institution. The significance attached to this requires productive school climate with efficient resources for teaching and learning. Nigeria public secondary schools climate are facing the challenges of inadequate professional capability, poor school preparatory ground and absence of facilities to cater for students. In terms of curriculum contents there is a total mismatch between stated policy on education and the provision of teaching facilities and structural preparation. These over stretched public secondary school problems which cannot be managed by authority and be accepted by education clients had led to frequent absenteeism, poor performance and constant student's dropout. This easily predicts the future of unproductive youths and these classes of citizens will be unskilled and unproductive. Thus, teachers are strongly finding it difficult to meet up to the expectations of teaching profession, because the school climate is not conducive for both teaching [teacher] and learning [student].
The paper x-rayed the challenges Nigerian Teachers are facing and its effect on the present insec... more The paper x-rayed the challenges Nigerian Teachers are facing and its effect on the present insecurity in the Nigerian school environment. The significance attached to our learning institutions (primary, secondary and tertiary institutions) require productive school climate with efficient resources for teaching and learning. Nigerian public schools are facing the challenges of inadequate professional capability, poor school preparatory
A survey study was conducted to determine health practices among students attending tertiary inst... more A survey study was conducted to determine health practices among students attending tertiary institutions in Kano state, Nigeria. A valid and reliable questionnaire coined HPIHLQ was self-administered to the study population of 600 students (aged 18-41years) across the selected tertiary institutions in the State, comprising of: 150 students from University, 200 each from Colleges of Education and 50 students from College of Health Sciences. Our objective was to investigate on the health instruction, health services, healthful school living, school home and community relationship towards influencing student's health practices to improve their living standards. Of 600 students, 400(66.7%) completed the questionnaire. The gender percentages of the respondents were 81.8 for male and 18.3 for female respectively. And most (54.3%) of the respondents were unmarried, 179(44.8%) were married and 4(1.0%) were divorced. Five of the factors associated with determinates of health practices were correlated and the result for relationship between determinates and health practices showed significant correlation(r = .462, p< .05), likewise between instructions and health practices (r = .477, p< .05), between health services and health practices (r = .602, p< .05), between health living and health practices (r = .880, p< .05) and between School, Home, Community with health practices (r = .804, p<.05). Based on this finding, we can conclude that health components are significant factors in ensuring effective health practices among the students of tertiary institutions in the state. Therefore, the need for the concerned authorities to encourage health related provisions in all schools.
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