Erumi, B.S.U. & Aghanenu R.N.

Dept of Health and Safety Education, Faculty of Education, Delta State University, Abraka.

 Abstract

This study is a survey research design that assessed the socio-economic relationship of climate change on health status of Teachers in Secondary schools in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. The study seeks to determine the knowledge of Climate Change impact on health status, causes of climate change relationship on health status, socio-economic relationship of climate change on health status and preventive measures for climate change relationship on health status. The purposive random sampling technique was used to select a total of one hundred and sixty (160) secondary school teachers from eight schools in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. The data obtained were analyzed using percentage to describe the four research questions and Chi-square was used to test the four hypotheses of this study at 0.05 level of significant. The result revealed that secondary school teachers have a high level on the preventive measures of climate change relationship on health status. 71.25% (114) have the knowledge of climate change and16.25% (26) does not and 12.5% (20) were undecided. 65% of the respondents agreed that climate change affects their health status. There is significant relationship in the socio-economic effect of climate change on health status of teachers. Recommendation was made that Promoting Sustainable Agricultural practices will help mitigate the health impacts of climate change on people and the reduction in the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil as it can contribute to climate change and have negative health effects and that health education should be promoted in the community.

 Key Words: Climate change, Health status, Teachers.