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| Volume 3 Number 1 - March 2010 |
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| Adjustment patterns and obstacles against social rehabilitation of sex workers in Nigeria. By: Aborisade, R.A & Aderinto A.A |
| This paper discusses the experience of the victims of sex trafficking after their ‘rescue’ from traffickers and subsequent referral for social rehabilitation in Nigeria. Through the use of in-depth interviews, key informant interviews and case studies, data were collected from ex sex-workers and officials of rehabilitation centres on the adjustment patterns of clients of social rehabilitation centres in Edo and Lagos States of Nigeria. The clients’ age, trafficking experience, prostitution history, mode of admission into rehabilitation centres and residential status were found to be a great influence on the adjustment pattern of the clients. The study therefore suggests that the design of intervention programmes should be sensitive to the various social categories of the clients and specific cases should be accorded specialized attention. |
| Women’s Adjustment to and Satisfaction with Retirement in Nigeria. By:
Yetunde A. Aluko |
| Over the years retirement has been perceived as problematic for most workers, not just because of the economic loss but also because of the loss of status and of a meaningful role. This study examined the effect of retirement on women’s happiness with life; and the specific factors that cause lower satisfaction with retirement among women in Nigeria. Data were obtained through fifty (50) in-depth interviews. The results revealed that retirement becomes crisis if one does not prepare in advance for it. Retirement does not have a direct effect on happiness with life; rather, it has several advantages. Other factors like health factors, earlier-than-expected retirement, lower income, and “The Nigerian Factor”, amongst others are the main determinants of negative evaluations of retirements. |
| Factors determining effective productivity among service workers: A study of nurses in Ogun State Nigeria. By:
Akinyele, S.T |
| It is generally acknowledged that the productivity of Nigerian workers is rather low. The study proposes a measure of effective productivity among service workers and seeks a parsimonious predictive model of “effective productivity” among nurses in Ogun state General Hospitals, Nigeria. Productivity among nurses is of special significance because of their critical role in the primary health care system. To this end, a descriptive survey research design was employed to collect relevant data. A representative sample of 325 respondents were returned and analysed. Chi-square test of association was used to identify factors associated with effective productivity from among a list of 38 variables. Hierarchical stepwise multiple logistic regression analysis was used to identify a predictive model for effective productivity among nurses. Thirteen of the 38 variables were found to be significant predictors of effective productivity (p<0.05). Only eight of these factors were retained during a search for a parsimonious predictive model. These in order of importance were midwifery training, involvement with the village development committee, involvement in making health policies, peer support, religious affiliation, ability to complete the Nigeria obstetric record, quality of health after posting and involvement with the community. The results underline the importance of midwifery training for effective productivity among nurses in Ogun-Nigeria. |
Mother is Gold: A Traditional Mother-Centered Community Based Approach to Food Security and Poverty Reduction as the foundation for Public Health among Rural Poor Women of South Western Nigeria
By: Emmanuel Babatunde & Kelebogile Setiloane |
| This research builds on the recent pronouncement of the World Bank that nutrition is the foundation of all development. Its approach is multidisciplinary in nature and preventive in objective. It combines the expertise of nutrition, economics and anthropology to create an intervention project aimed at food security, poverty reduction and wealth generation for self-employment by using the strengths within the culture such as micro-credit to revitalize the community. It commences with a pretest research orientation in which primary data relating to demographics of the community, occupation and public health facilities are obtained and used to structure the intervention strategy. It explores, through ethnographic data gathering method, the beliefs and taboos about food and how these help or hinder adequate nutrition. Through nutrition education, it employs the concept of positive deviance to sensitize the mainly women participants of the project to see the link between adequate nutrition provided by animal source foods that the local taboos prohibit to the survival and thriving of their children. It unifies the community women into a corporate body working together to generate wealth through micro-credit scheme to keep their daughters in the rural areas, away from the over-crowded disease ridden cities. |
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| sex trafficking, nigeria, Aborisade, aderinto, yetunde aluko, women retirement, productivity, ogun state, akinyele, world bank, nutrition, economics, anthropology, taboos |
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