The primary objective of this paper was to determine the factors that affects health instruction in secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey research method was used for the study and data were analyzed descriptively using frequency count and percentages. The results of the study reveals that school principals negative administrative styles and the inadequacy of duration/time allotted to health instruction in the schools were critical factors that affects health instruction in Edo State secondary schools. The study equally show that lack of health education teachers, lack of relevant health education textbooks, pamphlets and posters were factors central to the poor state of health instruction in Edo State secondary schools. Based on the findings, the authors made several recommendations including the need for school authorities in Edo State to provide relevant and modern textbooks, pamphlets, posters, computers and other related instructional materials. It was also recommended that the State's Ministry of Education should help in enhancing the tenets of health education by posting at least one experienced health education staff in the Inspectorate Division of the Ministry had been assigned the responsibility of visiting the schools regularly in order to ensure that the schools, students and teachers are adequately implementing the health education curriculum.
DATA on the attitude of teenagers in Bendel State of Nigeria were collected from a sample of 1,805 secondary school students. By means of frequency and percentages of responses to items, results showed that the majority of the students felt abortion was desirable. However the females, the older students (14-17 years old) generally felt strongly that abortion was desirable. They also feel that it is valuable to explore opinions regarding abortion, i.e. to assess ways of preventing abortion. There is then a need for emphasis on sex education and to legalised abortion on special grounds (medical reasons) in this society.
THE data on health knowledge items in areas of personal health, drug use, community health, environmental health, nutrition, family health, first aid and safety education were collected on a sample of 100 teachers in the teacher training college in Benin City, Nigeria. By means of frequency and percentages of responses to these items, results showed that the majority of the teachers (81%) had adequate knowledge in areas of environmental, community, and personal health; nutrition and first aid and safety while they were inadequate in areas of drug use and family health.
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