Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care in Nigeria: Report

This report provides an overview of contemporary health and social care issues in Nigeria, with a specific focus on female genital mutilation (FGM). It examines how information about health and social care is disseminated through various channels, including media, newspapers, and public forums. The report discusses the impact of FGM on women and girls, highlighting the risks and consequences associated with the practice. It analyzes the methods used to raise awareness and combat FGM, such as public campaigns, policy briefs, and the role of media in shaping public perception. Furthermore, the report explores the concept of moral panic in the context of media coverage of FGM, and how it influences public attitudes and behaviors. The report also identifies the various groups affected by the issue, including women and young people and the role they can play in addressing the problem.

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE (TASK 1)
1. Information of health and social care in
relation to public domain
Health and social care services help people to
save their life's and provide better care services in
centres. It includes sociology, law, biology and
ethics elements. Health and social care
information reaches to public and private sector
through media, magazine and newspaper.
Contemporary issues affect economy in their
health. For Example, in Wales and England
(FGM) Female Genital Mutilation effect people
mostly for female. In the age of 14 girls faced
this situation in society because they believe that
it was their ritual. This process has done by
untrained person through using blade which is
very risky for health. Thus, after crossing teenage
women faced a lot of issues regarding this
process. There are many girls or women's survive
at this stage that impact upon their health and
life's. FMG highly impact in Nigeria they
followed this process without having any training
By watching news on TV and hear something by
radio increase moral panic symptom in persons
mind, they get fear about the environment of
Nigeria.
Advantages: all this tools is very beneficial to
collect information about health and social care
and provide this detail to people.
Disadvantages: on the other side some persons'
missus these techniques and spread wrong
information to provoke the society.
2. Method for disseminating information
In Nigeria, women survive with a lot of pain
during this process by untrained person using
razor for this activity. It affects young women at
the time of giving childbirth, thus according to
this running conditions it takes a huge risk of its
unexpected death. To aware people for this
situation in country it used different methods for
disseminating data related social and health care
such as using local newspaper and published
information in it, make public press conferences,
Using local newspapers to spread this
information in front of society and government.
They make report according to difficulty faced by
women's and then print in newspapers for helping
Nigeria people.
3. Impact on people to health and social care
information
Female genital mutilation process injured young
girls or women's of Nigeria. It was unsafe
exercise that caused risk for having
complications in pregnancy. Guardian newspaper
is a UK commercial enterprise business, they
make report through survey regarding this issues
that in 2014 20,000 girls faced this risky
condition in each year at the age of 15 or 66,000
women's have experience this dangerous
operation. Thus, after knowing about these issues
through media and other different way, it gets
attention of different groups of people like UK
and Muslim women's community.
It can make changes in its behaviour, attitudes

people. In the process of this activity huge
bleeding expect death of women or a girl.
It was a crime that women faced every single
days. Health and social care centre spread this
information in public and private sector to aware
them regarding this dangerous process. Thus, for
reaching to public they used sources such as
make Broad cast through media, templates,
magazines, newspapers, advertisement etc. all
these activities aware people and motivate them
to raise their voice against this crime. Media
played an important role to reach the public
sector faster than other resources have. They
provide all the information to people about
Female Genital Mutilation process and its
negative impact on teenage girls and women's in
Nigeria.
Common method to asses the informations:
Leaflets and Pamphlets: they both are used for
publication the activity of specific things.
Internet: it is the most effective tool that used by
many people in all over the world. Through
using internet public gain many information
organising health promotion events, using local
radio channels etc.
Publishing policy and program briefs, according
to this technique of disseminating heath care
centres like charity trust or many others make
summary of FGM issues and make options who
to deal with it. The aim of this function is to
make policy through government to safe women
in this difficult situations.
Publishing issues report in statewide publication
and national journals, this method define the
process of making this report and then spread in
public domain. Thus, for this they prepare the
tables and then write methods to resolve the
Nigeria women issues.
Discussed problems and conditions in local radio
and thoughts towards FGM. People shows it
angers and raise their voice against this process,
they try to make group meetings, conferences,
group gathering activity etc. to discussed about
these issues and take advice of other members in
society. They approach to government person
who help them to resolve this issues through
making policies and laws that band this activity
in the whole world. Thus, after having
information regarding this contemporary issues in
health and social care, public thoughts get
changed and they reflect anger in their behaviour.
Attitude towards this activity is quite negative
and they want top stop this process legally.
Moral panic in context of media: it was a feeling
of threat and fear among the people who have
seen or listen the information about crime activity
in Nigerian women. People get affair by knowing
all this happen in Nigeria.
People get used this information to get award
around the other crimes which might be done
around to their houses and the place where they
leave.

about every function or stages of Health and
Social care.
Radio and Television: they both are verbal tool
that provide details within emotions that reflect
the clear condition.
channels, it was the best way to communicated
with society faster than news papers. Radio
channels help to provide information about FGM
process and their impact on young girls of
Nigeria. It also informs people about the what
they faced at the time of this difficult situation.
Radio activity inform government to stop this
process and make some laws according to it.
Sensationalization is a problem occurs when
interpretation and extravagant claims about
investigation about new of reports. To know
about the news of Nigeria crime it impacts on
economy and increase moral panic situations
among all of them. Conversation between two or
more people about problems in
miscommunication way result from various kinds
of health issues.
 Presentation style: The formate style is
very clear and proper in way.
 Font and size: This information is given
in Times New Roman and Italic style that
clear out all the points related with this
topic details. Thus, font style is 12 in full
information.
 Content: content is relevant with the FGM
crime in Nigeria and also to health and
social care.
 People: this information reach to every
people in country economy or to the
world. But most of the young age people
get influence about it.
Group 1: Women is the main centre of conflict
situation. Nigeria crime is related about female
thus, for this it directly impacts on other women's
in economy.
Group 2: Adult or young generation thoughts
may change after hearing this news. They are the
second audience who know react and take actions
for saving the life's of Nigerian females.