INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND EXTENSION SERVICE

The study examined the role of traditional institutions in the administration of health services in Ugborodo Community, Warri South-West LGA, Delta State. The research adopted sociological method of research utilizing both the primary and secondary sources of data. Five research questions were raised to guide the study. The population of this study consists of traditional leaders in Ugborodo community. The study adopted simple random sampling techniques in selecting the respondents from the Ugborodo community and respondents were chosen randomly from the community to make total of one hundred and fifty respondents. The data collected were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings of the study revealed that health services have saved many lives in the community, medical care and drugs in health centre increase the rate of the people wellbeing. Staff perform well in taking care of patients, health centre have high health management and support for patients by traditional institution. The study concluded that WHO identified health not as the absence of disease but more holistically as a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing

The world Health Organization (WHO (2008) defined environmental sanitation as the control of all those factors in man’s physical environment, which exercise or may exercise a deleterious effect on his physical development, health and survival. Environmental sanitation is a conventional actions or an essential process of collecting and safely disposing all kinds of waste within the environment with the intention of protecting and promoting the individual health and quality of life of communities. Environmental sanitation generally includes the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of waste, the maintenance of hygienic conditions and the prevention of diseases (WHO,2017). Adequate environmental sanitation practices remains a panaceat of public health intervention that is essential for social and economic development especially in developing countries like Nigeria. Environmental sanitation practice is a frontrunner to the enhancement or development of health, well-being and economic productivity and benefits the individual, household and community should enjoy (WHO)(2004)and Mara, Lane, Scott, and Trouba(2010)