Browsing by Author "Adejoke, Joseph"

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    Medical tourism in Nigeria: Challenges and remedies to health care system development
    (International journal of development and management review, 2018-05-30) Abubakar, Muhammed; Basiru, Salawu; Oluyemi, Joseph; Abdullateef, Raji; Atolagbe, Emmanuel; Adejoke, Joseph; Kadiri, Kehinde
    Medical tourism is fast becoming a culture among many Nigerians due to the deplorable state of the health care system in Nigeria. Every month, almost 5,000 people leave the country for various forms of treatment abroad when such treatment should have been carried out in Nigeria. About 1.2 billion dollars is lost to medical tourism yearly in Nigeria which could have been invested in the development of the country‟ s health care system and the country as a whole. The World Health Organization recently ranked Nigeria 187 out of 191 countries in its ranking of the world‟ s health systems above only three countries in the world while neighboring countries like Ghana, Togo, Niger, Mali, and Chad were ranked better than Nigeria. This paper therefore explores the remedies to the problem of medical tourism and development of health care system in Nigeria. The paper identified brain drain syndrome, underfunding, dilapidated structures and obsolete equipment, industrial strikes, culture of Nigerians preferring anything foreign and negative attitude of health professionals as problems facing the Nigerian health sector. Some of the remedies to the problem as suggested in the paper include: adequate funding of the system, improved health care facilities, better remuneration and motivation for health workers, government intervention on the battle for supremacy among health workers, immediate ban of government sponsored medical trip abroad, adequate training, enforcement of legal action against medical negligence, improved medical research and encouraging foreign investment.
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    Parental influence on adolescent sexual behaviour among secondary school students in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
    (African Journal of Social Work. National Association of Social Workers (Zimbabwe), 2017-08-30) Oluyemi, Joseph A; Yinusa, Mohammed A; Abdullateef, Raji; Kehinde, Kadiri; Adejoke, Joseph
    One of the aims of social work as a discipline is to improve the quality of life of families by finding solutions to inherent problems such as sexual behaviour in the adolescent. This study investigated the influence of parental communication and parental monitoring on adolescents’ sexual behaviour in Ogbomoso, South-West Nigeria. Data was collected using self-administered structured questionnaire. 860 participants were selected through multi-stage sampling method. 99% of the participants were found to be close to both parents, 63% of which were closer to their mothers. 52% of the participants already had a boyfriend/girlfriend, 40% had kissed and 14% had previously had sexual intercourse as at time of the review. 64% of participants’ parents never had the knowledge of theses happenings in the life of the participants. Monitoring measures adopted by parents included standing rules (34%), banning from visiting opposite sex (28%), stay-at-home order (21%), and tracing adolescents’ movements when they go out (20%) and timing their outings (13%). Some of the avenues participants employed in accessing their sexual partners despite parental monitoring include: when sent on errands (18%), during school periods (15%), sneaking out of the home (9%) and lying to their parents to see boyfriend/girlfriend (7%). A significant relationship was found between participants’ sexual behaviour and parental communication and parental monitoring (p< 0.05). The study recommended increased parental involvement in communication and monitoring of adolescent sexual behaviour, bearing in mind the consequences of risky sexual behaviours on the adolescents' health and the society at large.