Jimoh Amzat
Biographic Data
| ID | 390121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jimoh Amzat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jimoh |
| FAMILY NAME | Amzat |
| SIGNATURE | AMZAT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Usmanu Danfodiyo University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9564-1190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The scopes, outcomes, and limitations of health trials on oral sex practices
Worldwide, there is a paucity of health trials on oral sex practices. Despite methodological limitations, these trials reported mixed results, with the majority demonstrating positive changes in attitudes towards oral sex. Finally, there is a need for multi-country RCTs that are focused on oral sex practices, to ensure future policies related to oral sexual health are based on trials that are more rigorous, credible, and generalizable
Managing Contemporary Security Challenges in Nigeria
Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…
Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021
BACKGROUND: Disorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19. Previous publications from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor Study estimated the burden of 15 neurological conditions in 2015 and 2016, but these analyses did not include neurodevelopmental disorders, as defined by…
Routine Medical Checkups among the Elderly in Africa
Comorbid conditions are common among the elderly, and they are in danger of passing away soon. Therefore, there is a need for frequent routine medical checkups (RMCs) to maintain their health status. This scoping review aims to assess the extent of available empirical evidence on RMCs among the elderly in Africa. Seven research databases, namely PubMed, CINAHL Ultimate, CINAHL Complete, AMED (The Allied and Complementary Medicine Database), Socio…
Understanding Mental Illness Narrative and Treatment Experiences in Africa
Over 970 million people globally and over 50 million in Nigeria are estimated to be affected by mental illness. The condition is associated with several psycho-cultural and social problems including stigma which poses a major challenge for people with mental illness experience. The paper examines the understanding of mental illness narrative and treatment experiences and employs a combination of Social Construction Theory and Total Institution Th…
Medical Pluralism and Cultural Practices Associated with Umbilical Cord-Care in Rural Communities in Zimbabwe
This study explores how Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in rural Zimbabwe care for babies' umbilical cords, examining cultural practices associated with umbilical cord care. This study relies on a qualitative interpretive approach, guided by symbolic interactionist theory, involving 16 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). The respondents were de jure (trained) and de facto (untrained) TBAs in Mawadza village in Mutasa District in Manicaland, Zimb…
Access to Antenatal Care
Faith Effect and Voice on Early Marriage in a Nigerian State
The rate of early marriage is 87% in northwest Nigeria, although it is 56% in Kaduna. One major issue is that early marriage is often rationalized as a religious norm. This study explores the role of faith leaders in advancing the cause of adolescent girls regarding the timing of marriage in Kaduna state. This qualitative study took place in three local government areas: Chikun (Mixed Christians and Muslims), Makarfi (majority Muslims), and Zango…
Beyond Wishful Thinking
This article discusses the impediments to science-community engagement and identifies five forms of underdevelopment sentiments: primordial, mystical, ethnoreligious, conspiracy, and fatalistic. It also critically examines wishful thinking, which takes the form of superficial recommendations that do not hold any implications for society except on the paper on which they are written. This article argues that both inadequate community-science engag…
The Deadly Trio of Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhea
The trio of Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) target conditions, malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea, constitute a devastating global disease burden killing over 1 million under-5 children annually. Nigeria accounts for almost 15% of global under-5 mortality. The World Health Organization is promoting iCCM in resource-constrained societies. Therefore, this study assesses the knowledge of community members on iCCM target conditions. Health b…
Plucking the Flower Just too Early
In northern Nigeria, there are cultural and religious pressures on girls to marry early. Up to 43% of girls in Nigeria are married before 18, rising as high as 87% in the northwest. The study, using a mixed method approach, examines behaviours of community members towards adolescent girls' time of marriage with perspectives from adolescent girls, faith leaders, and community members. The study found that the practice of early marriage exists in t…
Gender Context of Personalism in Bioethics
Personalism is one of the philosophical perspectives which hold that the reality in person and the human person has the highest intrinsic value. This paper makes reference to Louis Janssens' eight criteria in adequate consideration of the human person but further argues that there is need to consider people as situated agents especially within gender relational perspectives. The paper identifies gender as an important social construction that sha…
Nigeria, Capitalism and the Question of Equity
The emergence of social problems in the modern capitalist system: child labour, tyrannical foremen, teeming slums, poverty, increasing crime and so on are reflections of impaired distributive system. This is because the quest for social equity is contradictory to the development of capitalism itself. This paper examines the incorporation of Nigeria into the world capitalist system and how this entrenched socio-economic and political inequity in t…
Privatization and the Social Value of Water in Africa
Privatization and the Social Value of Water in Africa The paper assesses the current clamor and actual privatization of water in Africa. Though this is said to be done in view of wastage and declining access of people to water, this paper submits that the transformation of the social value of water to economic, is rather a continuation of capitalist quest for profit making, which eventually is at the expense of the poor majority
Roles of Traditional Healers in the Fight Against HIV/Aids
HIV/AIDS is not just a regional but global challenge. Globally, about 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS with 70 per cent living in the continent of Africa. Antiretroviral drugs have not yielded deserving results in checking the menace of the disease. Thus there is the need for a complementary measure to check the spread of HIV/AIDS. This paper examines the role of traditional healers and their product in the management and prevention of …
Roles of Traditional Healers in the Fight Against HIV/Aids
Patients seek cures from a variety of medical systems.In the traditional medical systems, medical traditions partly cover other sectors of social life.In contrast to traditional health care system, the official health care system is based on Western science and technology.Gaddis employ different ways in case of sickness.Traditional medical knowledge is coded in to household cooking practices, home remedies; ill health prevention and health mainte…
Problems of Malaria Menace and Behavioural Intervention for its Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Malaria, the most prevalent and most pernicious parasitic disease of humans, is responsible for at least a million deaths each year with Africa bearing the brunt accounting for more than 90 percent of the whole cases. Thus, it is a prime etiologic factor of slowed economic growth in Africa as a result of lost productivity or income associated with illness or death and other damages associated with falciparum malaria. In Nigeria alone, over 50% ou…
Beyond Wishful Thinking
This article discusses the impediments to science-community engagement and identifies five forms of underdevelopment sentiments: primordial, mystical, ethnoreligious, conspiracy, and fatalistic. It also critically examines wishful thinking, which takes the form of superficial recommendations that do not hold any implications for society except on the paper on which they are written. This article argues that both inadequate community-science engag…
Roles of Traditional Healers in the Fight Against HIV/Aids
HIV/AIDS is not just a regional but global challenge. Globally, about 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS with 70 per cent living in the continent of Africa. Antiretroviral drugs have not yielded deserving results in checking the menace of the disease. Thus there is the need for a complementary measure to check the spread of HIV/AIDS. This paper examines the role of traditional healers and their product in the management and prevention of …
Problems of Malaria Menace and Behavioural Intervention for its Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Malaria, the most prevalent and most pernicious parasitic disease of humans, is responsible for at least a million deaths each year with Africa bearing the brunt accounting for more than 90 percent of the whole cases. Thus, it is a prime etiologic factor of slowed economic growth in Africa as a result of lost productivity or income associated with illness or death and other damages associated with falciparum malaria. In Nigeria alone, over 50% ou…
Roles of Traditional Healers in the Fight Against HIV/Aids
HIV/AIDS is not just a regional but global challenge. Globally, about 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS with 70 per cent living in the continent of Africa. Antiretroviral drugs have not yielded deserving results in checking the menace of the disease. Thus there is the need for a complementary measure to check the spread of HIV/AIDS. This paper examines the role of traditional healers and their product in the management and prevention of …
Roles of Traditional Healers in the Fight Against HIV/Aids
Patients seek cures from a variety of medical systems.In the traditional medical systems, medical traditions partly cover other sectors of social life.In contrast to traditional health care system, the official health care system is based on Western science and technology.Gaddis employ different ways in case of sickness.Traditional medical knowledge is coded in to household cooking practices, home remedies; ill health prevention and health mainte…
Nigeria, Capitalism and the Question of Equity
The emergence of social problems in the modern capitalist system: child labour, tyrannical foremen, teeming slums, poverty, increasing crime and so on are reflections of impaired distributive system. This is because the quest for social equity is contradictory to the development of capitalism itself. This paper examines the incorporation of Nigeria into the world capitalist system and how this entrenched socio-economic and political inequity in t…
Privatization and the Social Value of Water in Africa
Privatization and the Social Value of Water in Africa The paper assesses the current clamor and actual privatization of water in Africa. Though this is said to be done in view of wastage and declining access of people to water, this paper submits that the transformation of the social value of water to economic, is rather a continuation of capitalist quest for profit making, which eventually is at the expense of the poor majority
Gender Context of Personalism in Bioethics
Personalism is one of the philosophical perspectives which hold that the reality in person and the human person has the highest intrinsic value. This paper makes reference to Louis Janssens' eight criteria in adequate consideration of the human person but further argues that there is need to consider people as situated agents especially within gender relational perspectives. The paper identifies gender as an important social construction that sha…
Plucking the Flower Just too Early
In northern Nigeria, there are cultural and religious pressures on girls to marry early. Up to 43% of girls in Nigeria are married before 18, rising as high as 87% in the northwest. The study, using a mixed method approach, examines behaviours of community members towards adolescent girls' time of marriage with perspectives from adolescent girls, faith leaders, and community members. The study found that the practice of early marriage exists in t…
Faith Effect and Voice on Early Marriage in a Nigerian State
The rate of early marriage is 87% in northwest Nigeria, although it is 56% in Kaduna. One major issue is that early marriage is often rationalized as a religious norm. This study explores the role of faith leaders in advancing the cause of adolescent girls regarding the timing of marriage in Kaduna state. This qualitative study took place in three local government areas: Chikun (Mixed Christians and Muslims), Makarfi (majority Muslims), and Zango…
Beyond Wishful Thinking
This article discusses the impediments to science-community engagement and identifies five forms of underdevelopment sentiments: primordial, mystical, ethnoreligious, conspiracy, and fatalistic. It also critically examines wishful thinking, which takes the form of superficial recommendations that do not hold any implications for society except on the paper on which they are written. This article argues that both inadequate community-science engag…
The Deadly Trio of Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhea
The trio of Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) target conditions, malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea, constitute a devastating global disease burden killing over 1 million under-5 children annually. Nigeria accounts for almost 15% of global under-5 mortality. The World Health Organization is promoting iCCM in resource-constrained societies. Therefore, this study assesses the knowledge of community members on iCCM target conditions. Health b…
Access to Antenatal Care
Medical Pluralism and Cultural Practices Associated with Umbilical Cord-Care in Rural Communities in Zimbabwe
This study explores how Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in rural Zimbabwe care for babies' umbilical cords, examining cultural practices associated with umbilical cord care. This study relies on a qualitative interpretive approach, guided by symbolic interactionist theory, involving 16 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). The respondents were de jure (trained) and de facto (untrained) TBAs in Mawadza village in Mutasa District in Manicaland, Zimb…
Managing Contemporary Security Challenges in Nigeria
Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…
Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021
BACKGROUND: Disorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19. Previous publications from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor Study estimated the burden of 15 neurological conditions in 2015 and 2016, but these analyses did not include neurodevelopmental disorders, as defined by…
Routine Medical Checkups among the Elderly in Africa
Comorbid conditions are common among the elderly, and they are in danger of passing away soon. Therefore, there is a need for frequent routine medical checkups (RMCs) to maintain their health status. This scoping review aims to assess the extent of available empirical evidence on RMCs among the elderly in Africa. Seven research databases, namely PubMed, CINAHL Ultimate, CINAHL Complete, AMED (The Allied and Complementary Medicine Database), Socio…
Understanding Mental Illness Narrative and Treatment Experiences in Africa
Over 970 million people globally and over 50 million in Nigeria are estimated to be affected by mental illness. The condition is associated with several psycho-cultural and social problems including stigma which poses a major challenge for people with mental illness experience. The paper examines the understanding of mental illness narrative and treatment experiences and employs a combination of Social Construction Theory and Total Institution Th…
The scopes, outcomes, and limitations of health trials on oral sex practices
Worldwide, there is a paucity of health trials on oral sex practices. Despite methodological limitations, these trials reported mixed results, with the majority demonstrating positive changes in attitudes towards oral sex. Finally, there is a need for multi-country RCTs that are focused on oral sex practices, to ensure future policies related to oral sexual health are based on trials that are more rigorous, credible, and generalizable
Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Pathology (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 works) · Disease (3 works)