Authors : Yusuf Musibau Adeoye and F.O. Afolabi
Abstract: A healthy person is one who looks and feels well, has no illness or diseases and has enough energy for his daily work and contributes effectively to his immediate community and the nation at large. The government that pays lip-service to the health of its citizens is giving room to national insecurity. Thus, health education which provides learners with desirable understanding and attitudes relating to individual and community health should be properly integrated into the curriculum of tertiary educational institutions in Nigeria. Educational management helps in initiating and sustaining a viable health education for national security in Nigerian tertiary institutions, through the formation of realistic and achievable goals of health education for national security, designing the curriculum, determining the number of learners to cater for and consequent number of academic and non-academic staff required including other resource persons in the community, mapping out measures for effective funding of health education for national security and how this programme should be appraised in order to ascertain the extent to which its lofty goals have been accomplished and identify possible challenges facing the programme with a view to ameliorating them.
Yusuf Musibau Adeoye and F.O. Afolabi, 2014. Appraising the Role of Educational Management in Initiating and Sustaining a Viable Health Education for National Security in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions. The Social Sciences, 9: 102-107.