Multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central Nigeria

Introduction Over the years, rural dwellers have suffered from the unequal distribution of basic facilities when compared to the urban dwellers. This has resulted in situations where their health have been compromised and thus their productive capacity. Methods This paper using a Multilevel Anal...

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Main Authors: Omoniwa, Adeyemi Esther, Babatunde, Raphael Olanrewaju, Uthman, Muhammed Mubashir, Alaba, Olufunke Aduke
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Published: Jabatan Kesihatan Masyarakat, Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
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spelling ukm-115642018-04-13T15:45:27Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11564/ Multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central Nigeria Omoniwa, Adeyemi Esther Babatunde, Raphael Olanrewaju Uthman, Muhammed Mubashir Alaba, Olufunke Aduke Introduction Over the years, rural dwellers have suffered from the unequal distribution of basic facilities when compared to the urban dwellers. This has resulted in situations where their health have been compromised and thus their productive capacity. Methods This paper using a Multilevel Analysis examines these social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central, Nigeria. Analytical tools employed include the descriptive statistics and the multivariate multilevel model. Results The result of the analysis showed that the income, years of schooling, living condition, frequency of physical exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking habit were some of the factors significantly influencing the health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in the study area. Others include exposure to tobacco smoke, access to improved toilet facilities, proper solid waste management and distance to potable water. It also revealed that community level co-variation between health status and wellbeing was stronger than at the individual level. Conclusions Therefore, it was recommended that efforts should be made by government to provide rural areas with basic potable water sources. The rural dwellers should also be enlightened on the basics of good sanitation and hygiene. This will help reduce diseases and deaths from water-related infections and poor hygiene. Furthermore, laws should be put in place to prohibit smoking of tobacco products in public places. All these will reduce the incidence of disease conditions thereby resulting in a healthier workforce that can thus work together with the government towards the achievement of the sustainable development goals. Jabatan Kesihatan Masyarakat, Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11564/1/42-349-1-PB.pdf Omoniwa, Adeyemi Esther and Babatunde, Raphael Olanrewaju and Uthman, Muhammed Mubashir and Alaba, Olufunke Aduke (2016) Multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central Nigeria. International Journal of Public Health Research, 6 (2). pp. 727-735. ISSN 2232-0245 http://spaj.ukm.my/ijphr/index.php/ijphr/issue/view/6
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description Introduction Over the years, rural dwellers have suffered from the unequal distribution of basic facilities when compared to the urban dwellers. This has resulted in situations where their health have been compromised and thus their productive capacity. Methods This paper using a Multilevel Analysis examines these social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central, Nigeria. Analytical tools employed include the descriptive statistics and the multivariate multilevel model. Results The result of the analysis showed that the income, years of schooling, living condition, frequency of physical exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking habit were some of the factors significantly influencing the health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in the study area. Others include exposure to tobacco smoke, access to improved toilet facilities, proper solid waste management and distance to potable water. It also revealed that community level co-variation between health status and wellbeing was stronger than at the individual level. Conclusions Therefore, it was recommended that efforts should be made by government to provide rural areas with basic potable water sources. The rural dwellers should also be enlightened on the basics of good sanitation and hygiene. This will help reduce diseases and deaths from water-related infections and poor hygiene. Furthermore, laws should be put in place to prohibit smoking of tobacco products in public places. All these will reduce the incidence of disease conditions thereby resulting in a healthier workforce that can thus work together with the government towards the achievement of the sustainable development goals.
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author Omoniwa, Adeyemi Esther
Babatunde, Raphael Olanrewaju
Uthman, Muhammed Mubashir
Alaba, Olufunke Aduke
spellingShingle Omoniwa, Adeyemi Esther
Babatunde, Raphael Olanrewaju
Uthman, Muhammed Mubashir
Alaba, Olufunke Aduke
Multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central Nigeria
author_facet Omoniwa, Adeyemi Esther
Babatunde, Raphael Olanrewaju
Uthman, Muhammed Mubashir
Alaba, Olufunke Aduke
author_sort Omoniwa, Adeyemi Esther
title Multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central Nigeria
title_short Multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central Nigeria
title_full Multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central Nigeria
title_fullStr Multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in North-central Nigeria
title_sort multilevel analysis of the social determinants of health status and wellbeing of rural farmers in north-central nigeria
publisher Jabatan Kesihatan Masyarakat, Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2016
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