Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing www.iiste.org ISSN 2422-8419 An International Peer-reviewed Journal Vol.40, 2017 12 Growing Obesogenic and Psychogenic Work Built Environment Predisposition to Ill-Health Conditions: Are Bank Employees’ Vulnerable in Nigeria? Samuel Adesina OKUESO. Ph.D Faculty of Education, Human Kinetics and Health Education Department, Olabisi Onabanjo University. PMB 2002, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State Nigeria Abstract The bank sector in Nigeria is facing several challenges that predispose workers to several health threats that are latent but require attentions by health workers to prevent or reduce their incidences, such as obesity with its attendant ill-health conditions and psychophysiological conditions such as fear of job loss, repetitive stress injuries among others. Eight hundred and eighty one bank employees were randomly selected as participants for the study while questionnaires: RMIICQ (0.82), RCIHCQ (0.76), POPPIQ (0.90) and RCOQ (0.73) were used for data collection. The findings revealed that the bank work environment predisposes employees to ill health such as musculoskeletal condition: RSI and burnout syndrome. The finding also revealed that employees are not significantly aware that their work built environment lead to a number of ill health conditions.It was recommended that health education intervention will assist workers in adopting several life style models that may assist to reduce the incidence and predisposition to all attendant ill-health conditions such as nutrition education and use of exercise and sitting position at work. Keywords: Obesogenic, Psychogenic, Bank employees, Ill-Health Conditions, Vulnerable 1. Introduction The impact of environmental factors on human health is that most death worldwide can be prevented by making the environment more wholesome and health promoting. The interplay between man and the various forces of the environment in which he lives and the socioeconomic factors of the environment which include population distribution, work design and organizational techniques, population density in relation to available resources both natural and manmade, state of social and political organizations, cultural, scientific and technological development. Man external environment changes constantly and sometimes unpredictably and has both beneficial and adverse effects on the internal environment on the organism. Achalu & Bassey (2001) described work as a means of economic survival, an avenue for self-actualization and a source of emotional stability, hence, man must be involved in it to achieve the aforementioned goals and reap the work benefits in an ideal work environment that is health promoting and friendly. Most of the existing occupational health programmes till date are tilted and appear to be more concerned with the prevention of traditional occupational hazards such as accident at work place, occupation related injuries, non-communicable diseases and infections. By the foregoing, it means that occupational health attention is mostly paid to the aforementioned obvious work related ill-health conditions which informed the greater attention being paid at the detriment of social and psychological work environment of some group of workers. Little or no attention is paid to workers mental and emotional health, the work environment has an influence on the employees mental and emotional health (Ekpu, 2006., Udoh, 2002). A built environment which relates to work environment can be literarily defined as the combination of conditions such as transportation, land use, urban design, and the availability of options for people living in a particular region (Handy, Boarnet, Ewing,& Killingsworth, 2002). Booth, Pinkston, Walker & Poston (2005) added additional element such as public policies, organizational policy such as administrative protocols of over ten hours at work, working on computer for over 12 hours daily as done by bank employees in Nigeria as well as populations’ behavioural and social variables. Bank employees in Nigeria work in an environment that has direct correlation with predisposition to obesity with all its attendant ill-health consequences such as sedentary nature of work, consumption of fast food from neighbouring fast food centres, absence of exercise such as brisk walking and so on. Workers resume daily by 7:00am and closes between 8:30- 9:00pm daily, there is virtually no time for any form of physical activity(ies) among the workers. All these are work built environment designed to meet the organizational goals in the banking industry to maximize profit and bring return on shareholder’s investment. Work environment in the banking sector is linked to obesogenic built environment, which increases the likelihood of obesity and overweight characterized by the presence of multiple fast food restaurants in their office neighbourhood, unplanned urbanization and limited availability of healthy foods, sedentary work and absence of exercise with inactive commuting. Obesogenic environment have increased significantly worldwide (Chopra & Darnton,2002) Nigeria is not spared from the phenomenon with all its attendant ill health