Inappropriate complementary feeding practice and associated factors among children aged 6-23 months in Shashemene, Southern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.

Background: Inappropriate complementary feeding is widely practiced in low and middle income countries. These contribute to undernutrition, morbidity and mortality among young children. The incidence of malnutrition in the first two years of life has been directly linked with inappropriate complementary feeding practices along with high infectious disease levels.

Fathers' involvement in complementary feeding of children in Damot Woyde District, South Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.

Background: In infant and young child feeding practice parents are the primary agents for childcare activities, such as feeding. Mothers' role in infant and young child feeding practice has been the focus of previous research. The involvement of fathers in child-feeding practice has rarely been studied.

Predictors of undernutrition among the elderly in Sodo zuriya district Wolaita zone, Ethiopia.

Background: In any society, the elderly are among the vulnerable and high risk groups with regard to health status. In persons over the age of 60 years, nutrition is among the important determinants of health. However, undernutrition among the elderly is often under diagnosed and/or neglected.

How Ethiopia achieved Millennium Development Goal 4 through multisectoral interventions: a Countdown to 2015 case study.

Background: 3 years before the 2015 deadline, Ethiopia achieved Millennium Development Goal 4. The under-5 mortality decreased 69%, from 205 deaths per 1000 livebirths in 1990 to 64 deaths per 1000 livebirths in 2013. To understand the underlying factors that contributed to the success in achieving MDG4, Ethiopia was selected as a Countdown to 2015 case study.