Review of Health Promotion on Combating Early Marriage in Nigeria

The Alma Ata declaration was aimed at practical, scientific, social, technological and acceptable health care universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their active participation and at a cost they can afford. The paper aims at examining the health promotion system, its three tiers and the landmarks with a decade in Nigeria, with particular reference to the importance of Alma Ata at combating the menace of early marriage. This was a narrative reviews on health promotion in Nigeria, emphasized on how the performance of Alma Ata declaration towards achieving Primary Health Care (PHC) goals in the area of health promotion to prevent maternal and child health issues; literatures were searched to identify and articulate the 10years milestone achievements. Though Health problems in Nigeria were challenging, it was observed that Nigeria is one of the few countries in the developing world that has systematically decentralized the delivery of basic services in health, this helped to avert more than 1.8 million unintended pregnancies proactive family planning efforts, through intensive immunization, the Government totally achieve polio eradication in 2020 from a journey which started 1978. It was observed that for the PHC to be effective and active, the government and all stakeholders in the health sector should adopt a system of equitable distribution of health, resources and services to those in dire need of the services through the provision of cost-effective interventions healthcare plans that strengthens basic health care delivery.

Keywords: Early Marriage, Health Literacy, Health Promotion Parental ignorance, Unexpected Pregnancy.