Failure to utilize modern contraceptives resulted in youth women getting unplanned pregnancies that had detrimental effects to both their health and their thereafter social life. However, there is scanty of information on ...
Substance use is widespread all over the world among adolescent and young adult during the last 25 years. It becomes one of the most threatening and challenging social and public health problem and Substance use is destructive ...
Short birth interval is defined as the time less than 33 months between previous and current births. Currently short birth interval is becoming a serious problem of low and middle-income countries. However, there is paucity ...
Globally 38 million people were living with human immunodeficiency virus and among them 1.7 million were newly infected and thousands had died of the disease. Ethiopia is one of HIV high burden countries with a prevalence ...
In Ethiopia, abortion is a leading cause of maternal mortality. Although there is some investigation on post-abortion family planning acceptance among women who utilize abortion services, the immediate post abortion period ...
Adolescence is a period in which rapid physical, social and psychological development takes place. It is a critical developmental period as a significant portion of the disease and injury burden encountered, implying ...
Adolescence is a period in which rapid physical, social and psychological development takes place. It is a period of opportunity, but also full of health risks. However, the family guidance center in Jigjiga Town report a ...
Anemia during pregnancy is a major cause of morbidity and mortality of pregnant women in developing countries and has both maternal and fetal consequences. The regional estimates of anemia among pregnant women living in ...
The Ethiopian government's health extension program is a creative strategy to guarantee health equity by generating demand for basic healthcare services by delivering relevant health information to households in both rural ...
Undernutrition in the elderly have adverse effects on physiological functions and another clinical outcome such as decreased quality of life, higher infection and complications, muscle wasting, hospitalization and even ...
Wasting reflects a recent onset of nutritional deficiency related to insufficient food intake or malabsorption of nutrients which in results weight loss. However, regarding the magnitude of wasting and associated factors ...
Lactating mothers are one of the nutritionally vulnerable groups because of the high calorie and nutrient demands of lactation. Besides, khat has several nutrition-related health consequences which include loss of appetite ...
Wasting among children aged in 6-23 months is the most serious public health problems and owning to its associated risk for morbidity that affects child growth, brain development and can cause premature death of the children ...
Ethiopia is one of the developing countries hit by the double burden of malnutrition.Inappropriate food choice decisions and unhealthy diet practicesare among the reasons for the problem, which are poorly investigated in ...
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is one of the public health problems in low and middle income countries including Ethiopia. It affects women in child bearing age group and primarily effect to pregnant women. The prevalence of ...
Childhood anemia, a hemoglobin concentration less than 11 g/dl, is multi-factorial health problem among 6 to 59 months’ children that causes significant morbidity and mortality. Although anemia among children is found to ...
Folate inadequacy in pregnancy has been associated with several adverse outcomes, including folate-responsive neural-tube defects, neural crest disorders, fetal growth retardation, low birth weight, preterm delivery, and ...
Childhood diarrhea is amajor public health problem especially in developing countries, including inEthiopia. Ethiopia has been advocated promotion of open defecation free (ODF) to decrease the burden of diarrhea. . However, ...
Undernutrition makes the child more vulnerable to morbidity and mortality and has been linked to delayed mental development, poorer educational attainment and lower intellectual and physical abilities in adult life. There ...
Rickets is a metabolic bone disease caused in bones. It is a nutrient deficiency manifestation particularly for calcium and vitamin D from sunlight. It remains prevalent in developing regions of the world and rank among ...