Olufunke Fayehun

University of Ibadan · Department of Sociology

The majority of people with cancer present in late stage (Stage III or IV) in Sub Saharan Africa, resulting in poor outcomes. In Nigeria, over three-quarters of common curable cancers present late, compared to 35% in high-income countries. Early detection, and referral to surgical and treatment centres for first line treatment could potentially imp...

Introduction There are lapses in Nigeria’s data ecosystems with the consequences of imprecise and inaccurate data on humanitarian crises limiting accurate interventions. Therefore, we examined the data targeting processes in the humanitarian sector of Northeast Nigeria and the ethical concerns that arise when such data is collected and used to adva...

Urban slum residents have access to a broad range of facilities of varying quality. The choices they make can significantly influence their health outcomes. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are a widely-used health economic methodology for understanding how individuals make trade-offs between attributes of goods or services when choosing between...

Malaria is a major cause of child and maternal mortality in Nigeria, particularly in urban areas with increasing urbanization rates and slum development. Pregnant women and newborns are especially vulnerable to malaria. The use of Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPTp) with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) during antenatal care visits is an effecti...

In a patriarchal and natural fertility society like Nigeria, girl-child marriage is synonymous with early sexual debut and a prolonged childbearing period, ultimately affecting fertility outcomes and behaviours. This study explored the differentials in child marriage in Nigeria across socio-economic and regional groups, and its association with fer...

Over two decades of significant displacement in north-eastern Nigeria (NEN) has been driven by insurgency, banditry and terrorism of non-state armed actors leading to millions of people requiring humanitarian assistance in NEN insurgency areas as at 2021 (OCHA, 2022a). Ethical data is however central to effective and efficient humanitarian assistan...

The Data and Displacement project provides an assessment of the operational and ethical challenges of data-driven humanitarian assistance. Specifically, it focuses on the data-based targeting of humanitarian assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in camp-like settings across two regions marked by high levels of conflict and displacement...

Globally, armed conflict, disaster, and violence are the most significant causes of displacement yearly, with about 18% of the world population living with experience of violent conflict and more than 60 million displaced persons across the globe (Global Peace Index, 2021; International Organisation for Migration ([IOM], 2021; The United Nations Hi...

Policy Brief on Humanitarianism, Internal Displacement of people and Ethical Data in North East Nigeria

Ethnicity is one of the critical factors that shape contraceptive use in Nigeria. While there are growing disparities in contraceptive uptake among women of reproductive age in the three major ethnic groups (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba), not much is known about differentials in contraceptive use among the minority ethnic groups. This study examined diff...

Introduction Many urban residents in low- and middle-income countries live in unfavorable conditions with few healthcare facilities, calling to question the long-held view of urban advantage in health, healthcare access and utilization. We explore the patterns of healthcare utilization in these deprived neighborhoods by studying three such settleme...

Background Slums or informal settlements characterize most large cities in LMIC. Previous evidence suggests pharmacies may be the most frequently used source of primary care in LMICs but that pharmacy services are of variable quality. However, evidence on pharmacy use and availability is very limited for slum populations. Methods We conducted hous...

Background: Modern contraceptives (MC) are important strategies for reducing unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortion and maternal mortality, but MC remains low at 18% in Nigeria. Similarly, while there is increasing prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Nigeria, its effects on contraceptive use remain unclear. This study examined the influ...

This paper examines processes of humanitarian targeting and ethical issues arising in the collection and use of large-scale data with IDPs in Northeastern Nigeria. The analysis is based on qualitative in-depth interviews with internally displaced persons in Maiduguri (Borno state) and relevant stakeholders in Nigeria. There were discrepancies in th...

Objective Remote or mobile consulting is being promoted to strengthen health systems, deliver universal health coverage and facilitate safe clinical communication during coronavirus disease 2019 and beyond. We explored whether mobile consulting is a viable option for communities with minimal resources in low- and middle-income countries. Methods W...

Background: Modern contraceptives (MC) are important strategies for reducing unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortion and maternal mortality, but MC remains low at 18% in Nigeria. Similarly, while there is increasing prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Nigeria, its effects on contraceptive use remain unclear. This study examined the influ...

Background Improving the quality of primary healthcare provision is a key goal in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, to develop effective quality improvement interventions, we first need to be able to accurately measure the quality of care. The methods most commonly used to measure the technical quality of care all have some key limi...

Background Poor complementary feeding practices can expose young children to increased burdens of undernutrition, morbidity, and poor health outcomes in adulthood. Parents and caregivers, who feed the children, are shaped by socio-cultural beliefs and pervasive socioeconomic realities. Also, parental values are influenced by their perceptions and c...

There is a knowledge gap on abnormal birth weight in urban Nigeria where specific community contexts can have a significant impact on a child’s health. Abnormal birth weight, classified into low birth weight and high birth weight, is often associated with adverse health outcomes and a leading risk for neonatal morbidity and mortality. The study use...

Studies abound on international migration and remittances across the world and studies are particularly not lacking on the subject in Africa. There are however few studies on the moderating roles of information communication technology (ICT) and social media in the relationships among international migration, remittances and relationships in Sub-Sa...

Introduction With COVID-19, there is urgency for policymakers to understand and respond to the health needs of slum communities. Lockdowns for pandemic control have health, social and economic consequences. We consider access to healthcare before and during COVID-19 with those working and living in slum communities. Methods In seven slums in Bangl...

While studies in high-income countries have shown that failure to achieve fertility desires is significantly associated with unfavourable personal circumstances, there is barely any empirical evidence on the factors that influence the pattern of unrealized fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surv...

Background: Since its inception in 2009, the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) program has focused on strengthening the capacity of nine African universities and four research centres to produce skilled researchers and scholars able to improve public and population health on the continent. This study describes the alignme...

This paper examined migration status and reproductive behaviour and fertility of women in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. The study contends that fertility behaviour of urban women is better understood when examined within the contexts of system and voluntary social action analysis. The study reveals that migrants have lower fertility than no...

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Abstract Objective The poorest populations of the world lack access to quality healthcare. We defined the key components of consulting via mobile technology (mConsulting), explored whether mConsulting can fill gaps in access to quality healthcare for poor and spatially marginalised populations (specifically rural and slum populations) of low- and m...

Background: Strengthening research capacity in African academic institutions is crucial to address the ever-increasing health challenges across the continent. Since its inception in 2009, the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) program has focused on strengthening the capacity of nine African universities to produce skilled...

Background: Since its inception in 2009, the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) program has focused on strengthening the capacity of nine African universities and four research centres to produce skilled researchers and scholars able to improve public and population health on the continent. This study describes the alignmen...

Background: Since its inception in 2009, the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) program has focused on strengthening the capacity of nine African universities and four research centres to produce skilled researchers and scholars able to improve public and population health on the continent. This study describes the alignmen...

Background: Since its inception in 2009, the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) program has focused on strengthening the capacity of nine African universities and four research centres to produce skilled researchers and scholars able to improve public and population health on the continent. This study describes the alignmen...

This chapter presents a review of the consequences of migration (internal and external) on socioeconomic development in the twenty-first century of Nigeria. The paper is anchored on push-pull, cultural diffusion and acculturation theories of migration. Bibliographic and institutional databases were searched and screened. Thirty-seven titles and abs...

The title of this book is indicative of its moderate coverage of themes and perspectives in demography. It is therefore best conceived as interpretative, rather than encyclopaedic. Concise Demography of Nigeria is intended to aid demographers, sociologists, statisticians, economists, population geographers, public health personnel and policy makers...

Age, as a variable, represents a critical basis for demographic classification; thus, its misrepresentations or misreporting alter the accuracy of demographic estimates. This paper examines the extent and pattern of age heaping in the age data for adults, collected in the Nigerian Demographic Health Survey (NDHS). The study used the NDHS data for 2...

The death of children under the age of five still poses a serious challenge to the socioeconomic development of less developed countries. Studies on under-five mortality (U5M) have over the years observed the differentials across regions, countries and other geographical locations and groups. However, these studies may have underestimated the need...

Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumors and one of the foremost causes of infertility among women. While there are several clinic-based studies on the biological context of fibroid, very few had examined its socio-cultural context in a community study in Nigeria. This paper, therefore, examined health seeking behaviour of women living wi...

International migration attracts global concern as international migration and its remittances are highly important mechanisms with profound implications for family, community, and national and international sustainability across borderlines. The demand for workers in most industrialized countries in order to sustain national economies and aspirati...

Various intervention programmes targeted at different preventable childhood infections that can lead to child mortality have been implemented in Nigeria. While these global initiatives and programmes may have contributed to decline in childhood mortality rates over the years, the rate is still high in Nigeria. The causes of death are specific to di...

Husband’s controlling and domineering attitudes have been shown to contribute to women’s intimate partner violence experience in Nigeria. Some scholars have suggested that women’s safer sex negotiation may create additional opportunity for incurring partner violence. The purpose of the current study was to test the possibility that married women’s...

Social exclusion remains the most visible expressions of slum settlements. This study investigates the expression of social exclusion and survival strategies among slum dwellers in Ibadan, Nigeria. A merger of Burgess’ concentric zone model and conflict theory formed the theoretical orientation for this study. Data were gathered through triangulati...

Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), a program by Jhpiego global, implemented maternal and newborn health project between 2006 and 2010 in Kano and Zamfara States, Nigeria. This was evaluated with an objective to characterize the effects of volunteer household counselors (VHCs) upon improving knowledge of birth preparedness and com...

Every child has a right to life is article six of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child. This is also reflected in one the priority targets of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda 2030 to end preventable deaths of newborns and under-five children by 2030. Various intervention programs targeted at different...

Although there are empirical findings on mortality patterns among people living in urban areas as a whole over the last decade, yet specific-cause mortality patterns of the working age-group living in rapidly growing urban slum settlements is poorly documented. Access to reliable data is a major problem confronting such mortality study in countries...

Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) programme was introduced nationwide in Nigeria in 2003. Since then little is known about the patterns of its implementation across the states in the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. This study represents an attempt to fill this lacuna in the FLHE literature in Nigeria. Quantitative data was collected from the...

The introduction of school-based adolescent sexuality and life skills education in Nigeria's formal education sector raises the misgiving that out-of-school youths who constitute more than half of the youth population might be neglected. This study investigated the extent to which out-of-school adolescents have been reached with sexuality education...

This study utilised a context-based analysis of field observations and fifteen in-depth interviews to examine how begging is practiced by the elderly in a city in South-western Nigeria. As both sub-categories of beggars in the population and the larger elderly persons in the society, elderly beggars are a distinct demographic group whose needs diff...

In recent decades, public perceptions of old people in most African countries have been shifting towards negativity. Stereotypes of aging may shape behaviours towards the aged, and may complicate the social, nutritional, psychological and health conditions of the elderly. The perception and attitude of people toward the aged cannot be separated fro...

This study examined the prevalence and pattern of health-seeking behavior of older people on malaria fever among the elderly in Nigeria. Data from the Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey were used with a weighted sample of 1819 older persons aged 60 and above across the six geopolitical regions in Nigeria. The odds of fever as well as treatment seekin...

Background: Despite efforts towards reducing childhood morbidity and mortality, Nigeria ranks among countries with the highest rates of vaccine-preventable diseases including tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, measles, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. These efforts include regular rounds of immunization days and routine exercises. The government of Ni...

In seeking for more effective ways of fertility control and improvement of maternal and child health through birth spacing in a predominantly patrilineal society like Nigeria, this study explores how the sex of a previous child affects birth interval among ethnic groups, controlling for demographic and socioeconomic variables. The study utilized bi...

While maternal and child health statistics in Nigeria are still relatively high, indicators from several studies show that the southern region has significantly improved over the northern region. However, the childhood mortality rate in the southern part of the country is still higher than 70/80 per 1000 live births envisaged by Millennium Developm...

In Nigeria, dehydration from diarrhea is a major cause of death among young children. This study explored the prevalence of childhood diarrhea and the pattern of treatment of childhood diarrhea among Nigerian ethnic groups. The study utilized secondary data from Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey 2003. The ethnic groups in the northern part of t...