Health Problems and Health Care Provisions for Pre-School Children in Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State

📄 Project Abstract

It is universally recognized that health of school children deserves special attention. In order to derive the maximum benefit from educational programme, the child must be physically, mentally and emotionally healthy since anything that makes them deviate from any of these is a health problem. In this present study, health problem was taker to mean a state of physical, social and mental or emotional disorder, which could manifest in disequilibrium, unsoundness, and malfunctioning of the human organs. Health as a concept has been defined by different people. The World Health Organisation WHO (1948), has defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity (p.258). This concept of health sees health as multidimensional rather than just absence of physical sufferings or pains. With the recent development in health this definition has been criticized. According to Achalu and Achalu (1999), World Health Organisatio...