This paper, Population Education for Better Quality Life review the importance of Population Education when it reflects in the Curriculum of our Schools from Junior Secondary to Tertiary Institutions as this would guaranteed Better Quality life in terms of regulating human populations through the practice of methods that ensure proper family planning vis-a-vis food production. Better quality life is defined as a type of life in which the major needs of man whether physical, social and emotional are adequately satisfied. It further involves a standard of living that provides for adequate feeding, adequate clothing and adequate housing, together with other provisions in life that ensure adequate education, adequate health services, adequate leisure, that make possible the attainment of family welfare, social security, happiness and physical and mental well being of individual and his family. lso, the aim of population education were listed and readiness of Male and Female for reproduction were also discussed with respect to Malthusian theory of population.
Hand hygiene habits and the knowledge of their health implications were investigated among students of a tertiary institution in Southwestern Nigeria. A descriptive survey guided by twenty research questions and four research hypotheses was carried out. A total of 400 undergraduates were randomly selected across the five colleges in the University. The highest respondents were of less than 20 years of age (74%), followed by 21-25 years (25%). Two hundred and four (51%) of the respondents claimed that water which is vital to hand hygiene habit is scarce, 124 (31%) wash hands before meal only, 96(24%) wash hands after toileting, however, 368 (92%) had knowledge that good handwashing habit prevents diseases and infestations. Massive campaigns and awareness are subjacent to improve the culture and habit of hand-washing. Hygiene education should be introduced in all academic curricula to guide in the prevention of the rapid spread of epidemics of which hand seems the first contact of disease infestation.
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