Determinant factors of the longitudinal pulse pressure among hypertensive patients treated at Assosa general hospital, Western Ethiopia.

Background: Hypertension is a common, long-term condition that tends to be associated with age and can lead to significant cardiovascular complications. This study aimed to identify factors influencing the longitudinal Pulse Pressure of hypertensive patients treated at Assosa General Hospital (AGH), Western Ethiopia.

Methods: A retrospective study design was conducted from 325 randomly selected HTN patients in the outpatient department (OPD) clinic at AGH during the follow-up period from January 2022 to January 2024.

Individual and community-level factors associated with adequate antenatal care service utilization in sub-Saharan Africa.

Background: Sub-Saharan Africa (sSA) continues to rank among the regions in the world with the highest rates of maternal mortality and the lowest rates of utilization of maternal health care. The risk of death for women in sSA is 268 times higher than that of women in high-income nations. Adequate antenatal care (ANC) services utilization is essential to the mother's and the baby's survival and well-being.

A Hierarchical Bayesian approach to small area estimation of health insurance coverage in Ethiopian administrative zones for better policies and programs.

Sample surveys are extensively used to provide reliable direct estimates for large areas or domains with enough sample sizes at national and regional levels. However, zones are unplanned domains by the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program and need more sample sizes to produce direct survey estimates with adequate precision. Conducting surveys in small areas (like zones) is too expensive and time-consuming, making it unfeasible for developing countries like Ethiopia.

Mapping the spatial disparities of HIV prevalence in Ethiopian zones using the generalized additive model.

HIV is a worldwide social and health pandemic that poses a significant problem. This study contributes to the 2030 global agenda of reducing HIV prevalence. The study analyzed HIV prevalence using the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey data.

The effects of individual and community-level factors on community-based health insurance enrollment of households in Ethiopia.

Introduction: Community-based health insurance (CBHI) is a type of volunteer health insurance that has been adopted all over the world in which people of the community pool funds to protect themselves from the high costs of seeking medical care and treatment for the disease. In Ethiopia, healthcare services are underutilized due to a lack of resources in the healthcare system. The study aims to identify the individual and community level factors associated with community-based health insurance enrollment of households in Ethiopia.

Small Area Estimation of Undernutrition under Age Five Children Based on Spatial-Temporal Models.

The mean flow of direct survey estimates is mainly concerning the sample adequacy fulfillment unless it has been produced large variance estimates, and therefore, the small area estimations are developed to manage this flaw of the path. Small area estimation improved the direct survey estimates by borrowing strength from the census data and at the same time by using historical data from consecutive surveys. In this paper, we applied the spatiotemporal Fay-Herriot (STFH) model for producing fairly reliable disaggregate-level estimates of undernutrition indicators across all zones.