Are there traditional practices that affect men’s reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review and meta-analysis approach

Global attention to penile care is an aspect of men's health within the Sustainable Development Goal 3 of the United Nations. Environmental and healthcare concerns about the connection between circumcision and penile care are real. According to the World Health Organisation, approximately 665 million males across the world are circumcised. However, social hush about penile problems as contributors to men's life expectancy further incubates it for millions of men to suffer in silence. The purpose of this study is to open and direct healthcare attention to the dangers of penile disorder with an awareness check and knowledge sources. Designed questionnaire was operated on randomized 1,000 adults of equal gender distribution on mainland Lagos, Nigeria. Multi-stage cluster sampling technique was applied to carefully select a fair representation of study population. Newman's health awareness theory and its applications by three other authors support this study. Results show that whilst men are more concerned about their penile performance, women showed extra interest in penile care and healthy usage. Open discussions and literatures on penile issues are rare in Nigeria. The study would spur

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confidence: 99%

Awareness and sources of knowledge on men’s penile health in Lagos, Nigeria

Odiboh

Omojola

Oyesomi

2020

“…A Systematic review approach was used for selection and review of relevant literature. This is method of study has been used in related previous studies such as Udoh et al (2020) and Amoo et al (2019). This method was adopted because the goal is to synthesize available evidence in the literature on the adoption of ICTs as tools for public consultation to enhance inclusive governance in Nigeria.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-consultation and the quest for inclusive governance in Nigeria

Oni

Ibietan

et al. 2020

Inclusive governance through public consultation is fundamental to sustainable development as reiterated in the SDG16. Citizens' consultation in the policy planning and determination enhances the quality of policy outcomes and help to build public trust in political institutions. Traditional institutions for public consultation are however, often limited thus, policy decisions are in most cases, at variance with public aspirations. The consequence is a growing public cynicism of governmental institutions. To address this democratic decline, governments across the world are now utilizing ICT tools to better consult with citizens in the public policy process. This paper which adopts a mixture of descriptive and analytical research designs engages a systematic literature review for collecting and analysing data. The aim is to investigate the adoption of ICTs as tools for public consultation to enhance inclusive governance in Nigeria. Findings reveal among others that the increase in acceptance and usage of mobile technologies in the face of the challenges of infrastructure, energy instability and low level of ICT literacy among

“…The identity often sanctions the corresponding appropriate behaviours as a member of the workplace, e.g., choice of appropriate work, how to interact and how to present oneself (Acker, 1990). Normatively, men are constructed as breadwinners and superior, whereas women are constructed as carers and subordinates (Amoo et al, 2019;Deutsch, 2007). Men do gender by maintaining their identity as breadwinners (McDonald, 2013;Nentwich et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, some men, for reasons including e.g., excessive alcohol consumption (cf. Amoo et al, 2019), fail to honor the paternal role, which is then taken on by their wives. In line with the construction of good mothers, women could not leave children unattended or allow them to miss out on their basic needs.…”

Section: Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Doing and undoing gender in rice business and marketplaces in Tanzania

Ilomo

Rutashobya

Ishengoma

et al. 2021

This paper contributes to the gender-and-marketplace literature by exploring whether and how the ongoing, under-researched food-to-cash crop transformation of rice in Tanzania reinforces or challenges the "doing of gender". We apply Acker's "doing gender" framework, where gender is done by following normative conceptions and undone by challenging them. We analyze women and men's everyday practices and relations in terms of identities, divisions, symbols and interactions. The empirical material includes observations, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with women and men traders, farmers and key informants at two rice markets in Kyela, south-western Tanzania. We find that this transformation of rice has resulted in more processes of doing than undoing gender. Too, more women than men undo gender. Since men and masculinity are constructed as superior to women and femininity, this makes it more difficult for men to undo gender. The structures of the marketplaces also seem to influence these processes. Surprisingly, the old marketplace offers more avenues to undo gender, whereas the new, government-initiated marketplace reinforces the doing of gender.