RAJI SAKIRU OLAROTIMI

Sociology

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Topic: Medical Sociology, Health And Well-being

Description:

Medical Sociology is a sub-discipline in Sociology as a field of study. It developed as a result of some fundamental social explanation issues in both Social Science, (particularly in Sociology and Anthropology) and Science (Medicine). Medical Sociology is focus on giving explanations  about how people in different cultures, of different cultural background, and social groups explain the causes of ailment, the types of treatment they utilize base on the people’s perception, and to whom they turn to when or if they do get sick and any form of disorder (physical, social, psychological or otherwise). It can also said to be the study of how the people’s health beliefs and practices relate to psychological, biological, and social changes in the human organism, in both health and disease. Medical Sociology is a significant substantive part within the general field of Sociology. If it is agree that medical sociology is an aspect of sociology, it is logical to say that medical sociology is anxious with the social surfaces of health and illness, the social functions and roles of health institutions and organization in our societies, as well as the connection between healthcare delivery systems and other social systems, and the social behaviour and attitudes of health care personnel and the patients, that is, all those who are consumers of health care.

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (SOCIOLOGY)	DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, NIGERIA	2016

ARTIFICIALITY OF COLONIAL BOUNDARY CREATION, MULTIPLICITIES OF MIGRANTS AND HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES IN AFRICAN BORDER COMMUNITIES: AN IMPETUS FOR GOVERNANCE

The invasion and reconfiguration of African communities to states by colonial masters continued to be viewed as artificial borders created on the basis of political ethnocentrism and economic gains to the larger disadvantage of border aboriginal. The socio-political reality which led to an upsurge in intra-regional migration of people in Africa has further diffused the cultural setting of these border communities. The influx of migrants of different inclinations infuses different patterns of migration, and cultural dimensions to healthcare seeking and provisions. This study, therefore, examines the nexus between the artificiality of these borders and the influx of migrants, patterns of intra-regional migration, and its implications on healthcare of both the migrants and border community residents in southwest Nigeria. World system theory and neoclassical economic theory of migration were employed. This study was cross-sectional and exploratory in design. A multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in the selection of respondents. Triangulation of both quantitative and qualitative techniques were adopted in gathering data. For the quantitative, Yamane (1967, as modified by Israel, 2012) sample size formula was adopted and a total of 1,200 questionnaires were administered to different categories of persons in the study areas, on the proportion of the communities’ population, i.e. Seme (715), Ilara (423) and Okerete (62). For the qualitative, six key informant interviews (KII) were conducted in each border community.

RAJI SAKIRU is a Lecturer II at the Department of Sociology

RAJI has a Ph.D in SOCIOLOGY from DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, NIGERIA