Environmental policy sustainability as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda has appeared as one of the challenges to most developing nations such as Nigeria. This inadvertently has affected (SDG) agenda in Nigeria. Although many scholars have given attention to other dimensions of socio-economic policies/natural environment, the case of environmental policy sustainability has received virtually no attention in some regions such as southeast Nigeria. The study aptly captured the context of human behavioural disposition towards environmental knowledge and policy sustainability among the rural population in southeast Nigeria in the framework of Symbolic Interactionism/Environmental Responsible Behaviour, with the support of survey data. The study involved 1200 respondents from rural communities, while data collected through questionnaire instrument were analyzed using inferential statistics. The findings show strong positive correlation between familiarity with ecological harmony and support to pro public environmental policy (rho= .84, n= 1200, p<0.01), knowledge of the natural environment and support to pro public environmental policy (rho= .87, n= 1200, p<0.01), while environmental policy sustainability can be predicted by some crucial socio-demographic factors (p<.000). By implication, knowledge of the operation of the natural environment and government policy approaches and dimensions should be encouraged among the rural communities in the region.
Community health workers are the inalienable agent of sustainable development across the globe especially, in the developing nations where majority of the population are located in the rural areas. While the basic structure of primary healthcare is in dear need of grass root personnel in the rural communities, the community health workers are readily trained and provided to fill this gap. In Nigeria, the actualization of the aforementioned in line with sustainable development goal-SDG-3, which emphasizes the sacrosanct of comprehensive and inclusive healthcare, is still in doubt owing to the scanty of community health workers in the rural areas. In view of the above situation, this study focused on the social indicators affecting the performances of the community health workers in Southeast Nigeria. The study involved 252 men and women employed as community health workers in different capacities in government health facilities in the rural communities. The study, which was guided by Douglas McGregor X, Y Theory, applied survey design and quantitative data gathering techniques, while the collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics such as Mean and standard deviation as well as t-test and linear model. Among the major findings, age, familiarity with the host communities as well as receptivity by the communities are the among the sustainable factors to rural health workers, while improved communication, welfare of the health workers and improvement in skill among the health workers predicted the effective promotion of primary health care services delivery among Community Health Workers.
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