Health Professions In Nigeria

Author : Joseph Abiodun Balogun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9811633126

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Health Professions in Nigeria by Joseph Abiodun Balogun Pdf

This book provides a unique assessment of the Nigerian healthcare system's different professions. It begins by examining the fundamentals of health professions to contextualize the issues explored in the book in more detail. It goes on to present the hierarchy of occupations, professionalization, and the evolutionary path and socialization milestones that occupations attempting to attain true professions' status and power transcend. It also analyses the differences between professional autonomy, direct access, and independent practice. The latter parts identify Nigeria's primary healthcare professions and vocational careers and discuss their central roles, each discipline's specialty; including the biography of 35 notable pioneer Nigerian healthcare professionals during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book concludes by analyzing the causes and adverse impacts of interprofessional conflict and industrial action within the Nigerian healthcare system and proposes the interdisciplinary team concept as a panacea for both conundrums. Joseph A. Balogun, FAS, is a Distinguished Professor and former Dean of the College of Health Sciences at Chicago State University and an Emeritus Professor of Physiotherapy at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo City, Nigeria. His most recent book publication is Healthcare Education in Nigeria: Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms (2020).

Author : Joseph Abiodun Balogun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811633119

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Health Professions in Nigeria by Joseph Abiodun Balogun Pdf

This book provides a unique assessment of the Nigerian healthcare system's different professions. It begins by examining the fundamentals of health professions to contextualize the issues explored in the book in more detail. It goes on to present the hierarchy of occupations, professionalization, and the evolutionary path and socialization milestones that occupations attempting to attain true professions' status and power transcend. It also analyses the differences between professional autonomy, direct access, and independent practice. The latter parts identify Nigeria's primary healthcare professions and vocational careers and discuss their central roles, each discipline's specialty; including the biography of 35 notable pioneer Nigerian healthcare professionals during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book concludes by analyzing the causes and adverse impacts of interprofessional conflict and industrial action within the Nigerian healthcare system and proposes the interdisciplinary team concept as a panacea for both conundrums.

Author : Joseph A. Balogun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000319613

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Healthcare Education in Nigeria by Joseph A. Balogun Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria, looking back to how health care education has evolved in the country over time, before investigating new and emerging trends. The book begins with a discussion of the fundamentals of health care education, the art of teaching health care students, and modeling professionalism in health care. The book highlights the work of pioneer Nigerian health care academics, and explores the administration of health care education at departmental level. Finally, it highlights the role of elite Nigerian health care academics in the diaspora, chronicles contemporary challenges in health care education, and makes recommendations for reform. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners working on health care education in Africa.

Author : Joseph Abiodun Balogun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811970979

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Health Research in Nigeria by Joseph Abiodun Balogun Pdf

This book is the first authoritative study of the research output and scientific impact of Nigerian health academics, including those in the diaspora. Around the world, policymakers and academics measure the scientific impact of research at national and international levels using bibliometric measures. Unfortunately, there is limited data on scientists' research productivity and impact in developing countries, particularly in Africa. Therefore, normative bibliometric information from different countries is needed to address the challenges faced by scientists in Africa. This book contributes to filling this research gap. Additionally, the author addresses the controversies surrounding the use of bibliometrics in judging research productivity and offers recommendations to improve research systems.

Author : Irehobhude O. Iyioha,Remigius N. Nwabueze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317163091

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Comparative Health Law and Policy by Irehobhude O. Iyioha,Remigius N. Nwabueze Pdf

Health law and policy in Nigeria is an evolving and complex field of law, spanning a broad legal landscape and drawn from various sources. In addressing and interacting with these sources the volume advances research on health care law and policy in Nigeria and spells the beginning of what may now be formally termed the ’Nigerian health law and policy’ legal field. The collection provides a comparative analysis of relevant health policies and laws, such as reproductive and sexual health policy, organ donation and transplantation, abortion and assisted conception, with those in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and South Africa. It critically examines the duties and rights of physicians, patients, health institutions and organizations, and government parastatals against the backdrop of increased awareness of rights among patient populations. The subjects, which are discussed from a legal, ethical and policy-reform perspective, critique current legislation and policies and make suggestions for reform. The volume presents a cohesive, comparative, and comprehensive analysis of the state of health law and policy in Nigeria with those in the US, Canada, South Africa, and the UK. As such, it provides a valuable comparison between Western and Non-Western countries.

Author : Daniel M. N. Mcdikkoh
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781450021043

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The Nigerian Health System's Debacle and Failure! by Daniel M. N. Mcdikkoh Pdf

Author : Joseph Abiodun Balogun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030888633

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The Nigerian Healthcare System by Joseph Abiodun Balogun Pdf

The modern-day practice of health care was imported into Nigeria over 500 years ago. In 1947, the first national health plan was developed in Nigeria with the primary goal of providing universal health care (UHC), but this goal remains elusive to date. This comprehensive book presents the roadmap needed to attain UHC in Nigeria and offers a blueprint for achieving high-quality health care in the nation. Starting with a brief overview of the Nigerian state, the fundamentals of health care, including the challenges to affordable quality healthcare delivery, the author critically examines the healthcare system in Nigeria and offers specific recommendations to invigorate the system and improve interprofessional collaborations. Each chapter includes case studies to allow readers to contextualize the information presented and behavioral learning objectives to test readers' knowledge. Among the topics covered: The Organizational Structure and Leadership of the Nigerian Healthcare System The Vulnerabilities of the Nigerian Healthcare System The Spectrum of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Emerging Developments in Traditional Medicine Practice in Nigeria The Plight of Persons Living with Disabilities: The Visible Invisibles in Nigeria A Comparative Analysis of the Health System of Nigeria and Six Selected Nations Around the World A Qualitative Investigation of the Barriers to the Delivery of High-Quality Healthcare Services in Nigeria The Political and Economic Reforms Needed to Achieve Universal and High-Quality Health Care in Nigeria Reimagining the Nigerian Healthcare System to Achieve Universal and High-Quality Health Care by 2030 The Nigerian Healthcare System: Pathway to Universal and High-Quality Health Care is ideal for adoption as a textbook in health services administration, health policy and management, health informatics, healthcare delivery systems, and primary health care courses offered at universities in Nigeria. It also would appeal to students and faculty in African diaspora programs internationally. The book is also essential for policymakers, health systems technocrats, researchers, and professionals in various health disciplines, including medicine, nursing, and allied health.

Author : Phd Frcog Adeghe, Dr
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533328862

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How to Become a Successful Healthcare Entrepreneur by Phd Frcog Adeghe, Dr Pdf

Dr. Jude-Harris A. Adeghe has spent his career creating and managing hospitals in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. Adeghe began realizing that the many health care options available in Nigeria-including medical clinics, medical laboratory services, physiotherapy clinics, and pharmacies-were startlingly alike. There was no variation, and patients looking for unique services were out of luck. Creative solutions are badly needed in Nigeria. Adeghe is now offering his expertise to any ambitious health care practitioners in Nigeria who want to begin their own health care organization or other services. He combines practical advice in starting a business, with industry-specific secrets of success. Adeghe teaches readers how to create the optimal organizational structures for health care businesses and to push innovation and commitment to quality in their practices. While Adeghe has tailored his advice to entrepreneurial doctors and health care practitioners in Nigeria, it can be used as a foundation for beginning a business in many other African countries. He addresses health care problems that governments in Africa face, including inadequate funding, poor physical infrastructure, and a lack of effective regulation. Adeghe shows practitioners how to respond to these challenges and provide excellent health care to their patients.

Author : Joseph A. Balogun
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000935066

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Reimagining Nigeria's Educational System by Joseph A. Balogun Pdf

This book assesses the challenges within the Nigerian educational system and provides a concrete plan to revitalize the low-performing system by strengthening high-stakes testing at all levels. In Nigeria, many citizens believe that the solution to the country’s low performance in education is to eliminate high-stakes standardized testing. High-stakes testing refers to applying standardized student achievement tests as a primary mechanism to evaluate students, teachers, and their school’s performance. This book argues that the poor quality of education and low ranking of Nigeria’s educational system is not related to the negative consequences of high-stakes testing, but rather is due to many intrinsic factors. By conducting a comparative analysis of six high-performing education systems worldwide, the book offers a comparative summative evaluation of the educational system and offers recommendations. This book will be of interest to policymakers and scholars in the fields of African education, higher education, quality and global studies, African studies, management and administration, leadership, and professional development studies. Joseph Abiodun Balogun is former Dean and retired Distinguished University Professor at the College of Health Sciences, Chicago State University, USA, Visiting Professor/Program Consultant at the Centre of Excellence in Reproductive Health Innovation, University of Benin, Nigeria, and President/ CEO, Joseph Rehabilitation Center, Tinley Park, Illinois, USA.

Author : Lee Monaghan,Jonathan Gabe
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529765359

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Key Concepts in Medical Sociology by Lee Monaghan,Jonathan Gabe Pdf

How do we understand health in relation to society? What role do social processes, structures and culture play in shaping our experiences of health and illness? How do we understand medicine and healthcare within a sociological framework? Drawing on international literature and examples, this new edition of Key Concepts in Medical Sociology: · Systematically explains the concepts that have preoccupied medical sociology from its inception, and which have shaped the field as it exists today. · Includes new entries, such as pandemics and epidemics, the environment, intersectionality, pharmaceuticalization, medical tourism and sexuality. · Begins each entry with a definition of the concept then examines its origins, development, strengths and weaknesses, and concludes with suggested further reading for independent learning. Key Concepts in Medical Sociology is essential reading for students in medical sociology as well as those undertaking professional training in health-related disciplines.

Author : Akinmayowa Adedoyin Shobo
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783346410740

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Conflict Management and Team Development in the Healthcare Sector. Healthcare System in Nigeria by Akinmayowa Adedoyin Shobo Pdf

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Health - Health system, grade: A2, Obafemi Awolowo University, language: English, abstract: This paper spotlights several empirical thoughts on team development and conflict management in relation to the Nigerian healthcare setting. The subject of conflict is gaining more interest among stakeholders in all spheres of life. There’s been various perspectives owing to the roles often played by conflicts at the national and international levels. The focus of this work; however, is limited to conflicts within an organization – specifically the healthcare organization in Nigeria. Team development has been studied and characterized by organizational theorists and administrators as it concerns organizational performance. In the healthcare setting, maintaining highly functional teams has been advocated for many reasons including (a) the prevention of avoidable adverse events partly due to inadequacy of communication channels among clinicians. (b) The avoidance of unnecessary waste and cost due to a lack of clarity in purpose. (c) Decreasing the risk of medical errors as a result of the incompetence among the team of healthcare professionals. In the Nigerian context, experts have also identified some barriers to effective team development. The Nigerian healthcare sector has perennially suffered from the outcomes of conflicts among various stakeholders that make up the overall healthcare system. In view of these negative consequences of such conflicts (for example industrial action leading to termination of healthcare services every year); there’s been a rise in the phenomenon of medical tourism among certain privileged segments of the Nigerian society, leaving the majority of the population vulnerable.

Author : Evan Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000299533

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Medical Dominance by Evan Willis Pdf

Medical Dominance, now in a revised edition, provides a fascinating account of the medical profession's successful domination of a wide range of health care services. Evan Willis delves into the past to explain the existing division of labour and health care, the rise of the medical profession to a position of economic power within the health system, and their defence of that dominant position. Now completely revised and updated, this edition also considers the related question of the policy implications of medical dominance. The defence by doctors of their position of power is highlighted by the author's exhaustive and original research into demarcation struggles between medicine and other health occupations, in particular midwifery, optometry and chiropractic. Conventional explanations of medical dominance are challenged by the argument that the role of developments in medical knowledge and in technology itself have been overstated. As well, greater account must be taken of the social relations and struggles which developed for control of that knowledge and technology.

Author : Judith Schühle
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839450321

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Traversing Transnational Biomedical Landscapes by Judith Schühle Pdf

In the age of globalization, the transnational dimension of sciences like medicine seems to be given. However, the agents connecting different parts of this transnational biomedical landscape have yet to receive their due attention. Situated at the intersection of contemporary debates as well as theories of medical anthropology and migration in the 21st century, this book explores the experiences of Nigerian trained physicians who migrated to the US and the UK within the last 40 years. By drawing on individual professional life stories, Judith Schühle illuminates how these physicians disconnect from and (re)connect to diverse local social and biomedical contexts, becoming established abroad while at the same time trying to influence health care services in Nigeria through transnational endeavors.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309377799

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Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education Pdf

In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened a public workshop to explore recent shifts in the health and health care industry and their implications for health professional education (HPE) and workforce learning. This study serves as a follow-up to the 2009 Lancet Commission report on health professions education for the 21st century and seeks to expand the report's messages beyond medicine, nursing, and public health. Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education discusses opportunities for new platforms of communication and learning, continuous education of the health workforce, opportunities for team-based care and other types of collaborations, and social accountability of the health professions. This study explores the implications that shifts in health, policy, and the health care industry could have on HPE and workforce learning, identifies learning platforms that could facilitate effective knowledge transfer with improved quality and efficiency, and discusses opportunities for building a global health workforce that understands the role of culture and health literacy in perceptions and approaches to health and disease.

Author : Dag K. Brune,Christer Edling
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989-07-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0849369312

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Occupational Hazards in the Health Professions by Dag K. Brune,Christer Edling Pdf

This volume is written especially for health professionals affiliated with hospitals, veterinary clinics, dental offices, dental laboratories, toxicological testing laboratories, and pharmaceutical laboratories as a contribution to attain security in such working environments. Possible hazards in the working environments for the health professionals are discussed, followed by recommendations of the various precautions that may be taken to avoid these hazards. The possible hazards in hospitals discussed are ergonomics, physical hazards, chemical hazards, and bacteriological risks. The ergonomics, chemical hazards, and bacteriological risks for dental offices and veterinary clinics are also explained.