FINANCIAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM: A STRATEGY TO STRENGTHEN COMPETENCY IN HEALTHFUL LIVING AMONG STAFF OF HUMAN KINETICS AND HEALTH EDUCATION OF AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY EKPOMA

Abstract

The emergence of health knowledge in the promotion of health education as a discipline responsible for development and sustenance of healthful living has radically redefined a subsequently brought about great changes in individual’s health status. However, every entrepreneurship health education recipient and stakeholder in H.K.H economy has often been made to have some requisite possession of skills, or knowledge to develop health programs enterprise that is capable of driving the financial base of H.K.H for a greater height. This development, has monumentally posed a challenge to the overall development and promotion of health programs in the environment to adequately assess the level of developmental, strategy, survey research was employed for the study. A self structured questionnaire in financial resources management in the area of health education, in H.K.H was administered on 199 respondents in the department of health. The data collected were subjected to statistical analysis using simple frequency count, percentage and chi-square (x²) as statistical technique at 0.01 level of significance. The finding of this study greatly revealed that: financial resources management in the area of health education in H.K.H was positive. It is against this backdrop that it was recommended that H.K.H budget proposal should be effectively implemented in order to enhance competency acquisition of individual health knowledge and health management capacity.