SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOPTERS OF HEALTH ENHANCING BEHAVIOURS AMONG MIDDLE AGE CIVIL SERVANTS OF ENUGU EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ENUGU STATE

📄 Project Abstract

Man has always sought for ways to enhance health and well-being in the face of health challenges resulting from sickness and diseases. Every individual including the middle age civil servant is therefore expected to adopt health behaviours that will help him/her to promote health and well-being; these are known as health enhancing behaviours (HEBs). Health enhancing behaviours are very essential for every human being irrespective of age, gender or other variables, since these behaviours forms the basis for the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health and well-being of every individual. Health enhancing behaviours are defined as those activities and habits related to health which an individual adopts in order to protect, maintain, restore and improve health (Gochman, 1997). They include healthy nutritional behaviours, physical activity, safety measures like; use of seat belt and protected sex (use of condom), use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for some hospital and fact...