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January 2025
Metages Yohannes Health Research Consultancy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Current intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy was found to be associated with adverse health outcomes including pregnancy loss, preterm labor, pregnancy complications, hypertension, delivering low birth weight baby, physical injuries and stress. IPV in Ethiopia is considerably high. This study aimed at determining the prevalence of the IPV during the index pregnancy as measured at six weeks postpartum among women in their extended six weeks postpartum period and identify its correlates.
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December 2024
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Science, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Introduction: Zero-dose vaccine status refers to a child who has not yet received any childhood vaccines. Globally, zero-dose vaccination status is the major public health problem. In sub-Saharan African countries, among five children, one child did not access the vaccines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth Serv Insights
December 2024
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
One of the main challenges in breast cancer management is health system literacy to provide optimal and timely diagnosis and treatments within complex and multidisciplinary health system environments. Digitalised patient navigation programs have been developed and found to be helpful in high- and low-resource settings, but gaps remain in finding cost-effective navigation in the public sector in Malaysia, where resources are scarce and unstable. Hence, we set out to develop a virtual patient navigation application for breast cancer patients to enhance knowledge about cancer diagnosis and treatments and provide a tracking mechanism to ensure quality care.
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November 2024
Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia.
Background And Aims: Maternal mortality is defined as the death of a woman from any cause associated to or made worse by her pregnancy, either during her pregnancy or within 42 days of the pregnancy's termination, regardless of the length of the pregnancy or its location. The objective of this study is to determine the factors influencing maternal mortality as well as to examine the regional distribution of maternal deaths in Ethiopia.
Method: This study was conducted in Ethiopia and the data was basically secondary which is obtained from 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health survey (EDHS).
Glob Pediatr Health
November 2024
Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Samara University, Semera, Afar region, Ethiopia.
Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is a global health concern affecting people of all ages. The Ethiopian guidelines recommend sun exposure for neonates starting from 2 weeks old, with 15 to 20 minutes per day. However, evidence suggests that the implementation of this recommendation is inconsistent.
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