Health and Wellness of Workers under Insurgency Condition: A Study of Federal Polytechnic Damaturu, Yobe State, Nigeria

Idriss Yusuf and Abdulkarim Umar
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Idriss Yusuf: Department of General Studies, The Federal Polytechnic Damaturu, Yobe State, Nigeria
Abdulkarim Umar: Department of General Studies, The Federal Polytechnic Damaturu, Yobe State, Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2020, vol. 7, issue 7, 09-15

Abstract: Health and wellness are concepts which describe the state of wellbeing of an individual. Health and wellness are no doubt, significant elements of concerned for individual in life. The level of health and wellness of individual at a time portray his/her ability and productivity in an organization or society. Health is more than diet and wealth and a healthy person is regarded as a wealthy person. This paper, therefore, considered issues that are concerned health and wellness such as the meaning of health and wellness, the determinants of health and components of wellness. The objectives of this research are to examine the level of health and wellness of the polytechnic staff, adequacy, effectiveness, and ineffectiveness of the components of wellness. Questionnaires were distributed to sixty staff which were drawn through simple random sampling to form the sample of the study. The data were finally analyzed and found that all most all the components are on a high level except the physical component as justified by the results of the SPSS. From the finding therefore, it was recommended that factors such as recreational centers, housing, transportation. Landscaping, renovation of structures should be done in order to improve on the physical component.

Date: 2020
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