Health-Tips And Effective Service Delivery Of Social Science Education Academic Staff In Federal Universities In Nigeria

Health is very critical for social science education academics, even when they possesses the required knowledge, skills, techniques, availability of conducive work environment and the lecturer is not in good health, service delivery will be hampered. The research design adopted for the study is descriptive survey. The population of the study consists of all Social Science education academic staff in five South East Federal Universities in Nigeria. All the 208 social science education teachers were involved in the study because the population is manageable, so there was no sampling. A structured questionnaire developed by the researchers titled "health-tips and effective service delivery Questionnaire" (HESDQ) was used for data collection. The data collected were analysed using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The findings of this study revealed that more than half of the Federal Universities Lecturers are aware of the health practices. The findings also revealed that Federal University lecturers' age below 30yrs have low extent on the use of health-tips.