Challenges of Health Promotion in the Contemporary Nigerian Society

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to expose the challenges of health promotion in the contemporary Nigeria society. In doing this, the paper explained the concept of health, explored anatomy of health promotion, justified the relevance of health in a society, explored the impact of health promotion in Nigeria by using some current statistics of some health indicators, and then identified some major challenges of health promotion in Nigeria. Based on the revelations in the paper recommendation was made that corruption should be tackled in the Nigerian polity for health promotion programme to have satisfactory impact in Nigerian society. This position was informed by the fact that corruption has a way of affecting every other sub-systems in any society.