Prevalence of newborn care practice and associated factors among mothers of one month infants in Hossana town, Hadiya zone, Southern, Nation, Nationality People of Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia

Abstract

It was estimated that about 87,000 newborn died in the first 28 days of life every year in Ethiopia, with a larger share of 42% all deaths of under-five mortality, the highest risk of death was occurred in the first 24 hours of life while within the first weeks of life greater than half of deaths occur.