Management and Utilization of Knowledge and Skills: Precursor for Sound Health Care and Food Security

Dr. Areba George Ngwacho – Kisii University
Email: narebag@gmail.com

Received September 27, 2019; Reviewed December 23, Accepted December 31, 2019

Abstract: People in opulent countries as compared with those in underprivileged nations are beneficiaries of virtuous standards of living, freedom from diseases related with ignorance, prolonged lifespan, food security and unrivaled power to change their environs by managing and utilizing their skills and knowledge well. Seventy five percent of the six billion populaces in Africa survive in income of less than three thousand US dollars per person per year and over half below seven hundred and fifty US dollars. For the larger Africa populace,their existence is very lethargic. Paucity remains the order of the day, food security is not guaranteed, lifespan is lessened, and well-being is frequently brittle. Over hundred million children in Africa are absent from school with major leading causes being cost of education, diseases, lack of food among other factors. In many of the developing countries less than a quarter of children finish secondary education, and less than 1 in 20 learn at higher education level due to ill health and food insecurity.The capability system approach theory by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum informs the perspectives in this descriptive paper given that enough food and sound health enables an individual to develop set of capabilities which he/she uses to achieve certain functionings to enhance his/her well being.The effect of household schooling realization on health and food stability among poor families cannot be underestimated.To establish the connection between education achievement, health and food security is one step to the realization of sound health and reduction in prevalence to food security in any society. Consequently this will lead to strategies intended at improving health status and decreasing food insecurity among the deprived and augmenting household incomes.Education, food security and health have a two way causal relationship in the sense that education informs food security and health as food security and health informs education.These will be the propositions of this reflective paper given that management and utilization of knowledge and skills is key to socio-economic growth and that science and technology education has critical role to play more specifically on universal health care and food security.