Health and Wellness of Workers under Insurgency Condition: A Study of Federal Polytechnic Damaturu, Yobe State, Nigeria
- July 21, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Health Sciences, IJRSI
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue VI, June 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705
Idriss Yusuf1, Abdulkarim Umar2
1,2Department of General Studies, The Federal Polytechnic Damaturu, Yobe State, Nigeria
Abstract: Health and wellness are concepts which describe the state of wellbeing of an individual. Health and wellness are no doubt, significant elements of concerned for individual in life. The level of health and wellness of individual at a time portray his/her ability and productivity in an organization or society. Health is more than diet and wealth and a healthy person is regarded as a wealthy person. This paper, therefore, considered issues that are concerned health and wellness such as the meaning of health and wellness, the determinants of health and components of wellness. The objectives of this research are to examine the level of health and wellness of the polytechnic staff, adequacy, effectiveness, and ineffectiveness of the components of wellness. Questionnaires were distributed to sixty staff which were drawn through simple random sampling to form the sample of the study. The data were finally analyzed and found that all most all the components are on a high level except the physical component as justified by the results of the SPSS. From the finding therefore, it was recommended that factors such as recreational centers, housing, transportation. Landscaping, renovation of structures should be done in order to improve on the physical component.
Keywords: Assessment, Determinant, Components, Health And Wellness, Insurgency
I. INTRODUCTION
It is a general statement that health is more than diet and wealth. A healthy person is always regarded as having everything in life. This is because all resources at the disposal of individual are meaningful when are manipulated through struggling which can only be realized when one is healthier. Health and wellness are closely interconnected that one cannot have optimally one without the other. Sometimes they are seen as similarity and same. They are usually taken as entirely different in meaning and definition but represent health related concepts or terms and formed the overall part of individual wellbeing. Health is the bedrock with which ends is justified. However, health of an individual depends on his/her state of wellness. Wellness is a process and a major player of one getting healthier for living a better life. Thus, health and wellness combined together make an individual getting an optimal health level. That is to say one cannot have one of them without the other. In this connection individual lifestyles tell much on his/her level of wellness which also has multiplier effects on his/her health status.
