Advance Care Planning Preferences for Adolescents With Cardiac Disease.

Background And Objectives: Adolescents with cardiac disease are at risk for life-changing complications and premature death. The importance of advance care planning (ACP) in adults with congenital heart disease and in pediatric patients with HIV and cancer has been demonstrated. ACP preferences of adolescents with heart disease have not been evaluated.

Correction to: The prevalence and associated factors of alcohol use among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public hospitals Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

The prevalence and associated factors of alcohol use among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public hospitals Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019.

Background: Alcohol use during pregnancy is a significant public health problem, ultimately affecting the neonatal offspring. Recent studies explore that no safe amount and safe time to drink alcohol during pregnancy. Even though drinking in pregnancy has a wide range of problems, a small number of scientific publications document on the magnitude of drinking alcohol during pregnancy in Sub-Saharan African countries including Ethiopia.

The role of health extension workers in improving utilization of maternal health services in rural areas in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study.

Background: Community health workers are widely used to provide care for a broad range of health issues. Since 2003 the government of Ethiopia has been deploying specially trained new cadres of community based health workers named health extension workers (HEWs). This initiative has been called the health extension program.

Cost implications of delays to tuberculosis diagnosis among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia.

Background: Delays seeking care worsen the burden of tuberculosis and cost of care for patients, families and the public health system. This study investigates costs of tuberculosis diagnosis incurred by patients, escorts and the public health system in 10 districts of Ethiopia.

Methods: New pulmonary tuberculosis patients > or = 15 years old were interviewed regarding their health care seeking behaviour at the time of diagnosis.