Laws were made for the people by the people. They exist in virtually every sphere of significance to life as a whole. There are laws that regulate health provision and delivery. These laws serve to ensure that your right to good health as a fundamental human right isn’t denied in anyway. However, most people don’t…
How exactly does one’s level of education influence one’s health choices and the quality of health care? Is it odd that people with more education live longer, healthier lives than those with fewer years of schooling across the world? Here, we discuss literacy in the context of institutionalized learning and its resultant effect on health.…
You shouldn’t be surprised, I hope. Corruption is a Nigerian thing and there’s little or no doubt about that today. Well, it’s largely a human thing that we’ve somehow learnt to make more of our own. How exactly are corrupt activities being perpetrated in Nigeria’s health care sector? How much has the health sector suffered…
Thirteen, fourteen……nineteen. Currently, one in every six persons in the world belong to this age group. This statistic reflects more of the adolescent age group (10-19) but doesn’t take much away from the point being made. We have a teeming population of young persons who face a number of health challenges peculiar to their age…
An estimated 1.25 million induced abortions occurred in Nigeria in 2012, equivalent to a rate of 33 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–49 despite the existing legislation against abortion. It does seem as though the legislation appears to be a case of ‘shooting one’s self in the foot’ as it hasn’t helped to reduce the rate…
The impact of religion on health in Nigeria is not easily downplayed any day. In fact, there’s probably no way to downplay it. Religiosity permeates every aspect of the Nigerian atmosphere and this doesn’t exclude health at all. There’s seldom any patient that comes into any Nigerian hospital without a prior attempt at divine healing.…
“The boy was beaten to a pulp. I saw terrible injuries on his back and his dad, a pastor in a popular Nigerian Pentecostal church said, ‘if I can deliver other people, why can’t I deliver my son,’” This case would be one reported case of many others. In a country somewhat obsessed with the…
Receiving the news of a cancer growing in one’s body could be horrendously disheartening to put it mildly. It’s often viewed as a death sentence anyway and this is well portrayed in the media. Thia fear is actually not unfounded in that cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the world. Of course, there’s…
The word ‘oligospermia’ might sound foreign to most, at least not until it is revealed to mean ‘low sperm count’. By then, everyone recognizes the word and its implications. Problems with fertility constitute a large percentage of frequently asked questions (FAQs) online. It follows that ‘low sperm count’ tops the list of the questions from…
We once did a fairly good job of convincing ourselves of huge contributions of religion to good health. At least I hope we did. On the flip side, let’s discuss some negative effects religion might have had and still have on health. The religious model of disease causation believes that disease are from man’s common…