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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Birth weight plays an important role in infant mortality, morbidity, development, and future health. Low birth weight is one of the public health problems in the globe and it is an indicator of the health of the newborn ...

Nutritional knowledge is important because it helps battle malnutrition. A lack of knowledge regarding nutrition and unhealthy eating habits are linked to inadequate and unbalanced nutrition in adolescence. Unhealthy eating ...

Prenatal use of substances like alcohol, tobacco and khat can bring miscarriage, stillbirth, prematurity, neurodevelopmental problems like fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, sudden infant death syndrome and others.There are ...

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 ...

Anemia in the postpartum period continues to be a public health problem all over the world; predominantly in developing countries with a magnitude of 50-80%. It is also one of the most common maternal morbidity and is ...

The three distinct attributes of referral appropriateness are referral necessity, referral destination and referral quality. Although the occurrence of obstetric complications is often unpredictable, prevention of maternal ...

Nearly 2.4 million neonatal deaths occur worldwide during the first 28 days of life, primarily due to infections, preterm birth complications, and intrapartum complications. In Ethiopia, 80,000 newborn deaths are recorded ...