This study examined how Nigerian Newspaper readership responded to discourses on healthy lifestyle for disease prevention. In line with this, five research questions were posed for investigation as follows: 1. To what extent do Nigerian Newspapers discuss healthy lifestyle for prevention of disease? 2. Who among the target audience are exposed to these messages? 3. How many of the readers are knowledgeable of the 'safe' habits necessary to maintain a healthy state? 4. What is the readers' disposition towards the health discourses in the Nigerian Newspapers? 5. To what extent do they take health action as suggested in Newspaper health discourses? The study involved triangulation. Newspaper discourses on healthy lifestyle were content analyzed to determine the extent of newspapers' discourses. The Survey data was collected from 386 civil servants drawn from three selected state secretariats in south east Nigeria. Results from analyzed data showed the presence of healthy lifestyle discourses in Nigerian newspapers in a significant manner. The data analyzed revealed that the civil servant respondents studied read the newspapers and were highly exposed to Newspaper discourses on the subject matter. The civil servants also demonstrated high knowledge of the safe habits necessary to maintain a healthy state. The respondents were also found to have good disposition towards the message but not all the civil servants took adequate action to maintain a healthy state.

E-health is a relatively new area in healthcare delivery largely supported by electronic processes and communication. The increasing need to better inform people about health practices and actions has been fingered to be the primary reason for the rise of e-health communication as a means of introducing ideas and information on better health practices and safer solutions to health issues. Driven on the wheels of new media technologies like the internet, it is arguably a way of getting health information without stress and almost without cost. This paper, conducted as a study, focuses on Nigerian University undergraduate students and the extent they utilize e-health resources and subsequently take appropriate health actions. It also explores how useful e-health has been in improving undergraduate students' health practices in Nigeria. One of the major questions posed in this study is whether Nigerian University undergraduate students are knowledgeable about e-health and as such are they exposed to e-health resources? The paper employed the survey research design where 400 respondents were studied across two Universities in SouthEast Nigeria. Findings revealed that about 60% of Nigerian undergraduate students rely on e-health to take proactive health actions. In the 21 st century, nations are being faced with increasing concerns about health problems, 478 Marion Emmanuel N., Charity Ekwenchi O. and Nnanwuba Adum A..

Sickle cell disease is the commonest genetic disease in Nigeria; among Africans and the generality of the black race. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of blood disorder typically inherited from a person's parents. It results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein hemoglobin in the red blood cells. The issue of genotype incompatibility among prospective couples, and decisions on marriage in the face of this health condition, can have significant implication on the control of this disease in Nigeria and any other country. HIV epidemic in Nigeria has recorded high numbers in persons living with HIV and deaths related to AIDS. Reports from UNAIDS show that an estimated 1.9 million persons are living with HIV in Nigeria; 1.4% of adults between ages 15-49 live with the virus. This statistics suggest that a lot of work is still needed to scale up HIV treatment and prevention services. The church, through religious doctrines and propagation of religious teachings, has a stronghold on the perception and acceptance of lifestyles in our multi-cultural African society. As such, our discourse examines health implications of marriage, with a focus on the viability and utility of premarital medical tests for sickle cell disease and HIV, as a prerequisite for matrimony in the church in Nigeria.

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Our study examined Undergraduate students' awareness of the health implications associated with the use of screen devices. We sought to determine the extent to which university students in Southeast Nigeria expose themselves to electronic screen-based devices; the possible factors influencing the students' level of exposure to the devices; ascertain the possible health implications associated with the students' exposure to the devices; establish the undergraduate students' level of awareness of health implications associated with exposure to screen-based devices; and assess the students' views on ways the health implications could be curtailed. A mixed research approach was adopted for the study. Findings generally indicate that university students in Southeast Nigeria spend amazing amount of time on 'screen-based devices' (computers, phones, video games, television), which have become an essential part of their life. Also, these students have a high level of awareness of the possible health implications associated with the use of screen-based devices, as most of them claim to have experienced one form of health challenge or another in the course of using the devices. Therefore the study recommended that relevant government agencies and Non Governmental Organizations as well as the media should educate people in order to create awareness on certain precautionary measures users of screen-based devices need to take to reduce the health risks they may likely face in the cause of utilizing screen-based devices.