Background: Obstructed and prolonged labor is associated with a high perinatal mortality and morbidity (fetal and newborn deaths, and disease and disability occurring around the time of the birth). It contributes to 22% ...

Background: Health workers collect and report data routinely. Studies show that very little of this vast amount of information is used for decisions and service improvement by those who are collecting the data and by local ...

Background: Although child sexual abuse (CSA) is recognized as a serious violation of human well-being and of the law, no community has yet developed mechanisms that ensure that none of their youth will be sexually abused. ...

Background: Utilization of health services is defined as the ways in which individuals respond to ill health and disease. Many factors may influence this response, including characteristics of the individual and their ...

Background: Health systems aim to narrow inequality in access to health care across socioeconomic groups and area of residence. However, in low-income countries like Ethiopia where 50% of the populations are illiterate ...

Background: Children are most vulnerable to stunting in developing countries because of lack of food security, distance of fetch water, low dietary intakes, in balanced complementary feeding. Stunting In Ethiopia, identified ...

Background: The body of literature suggests that a range of socio-cultural health care system and communication-educational factors influence patient care seeking and adherence behavior. On the basis of the existing ...

Background: Blindness or visual loss is a serious public health problem affecting around 36 million of world population. The prediction for the number of blind people in 2020 are 38.5 million due to different causes. Among ...

Introduction: -Job satisfaction is an important determinant of health worker motivation, retention, and performance, all of which are critical to improving the functioning of health systems in low- and middle income ...

Background: Skilled assistance during delivery is key intervention to reduce maternal deaths. However, in Ethiopia, which is among the six countries contributing to more than half of global maternal deaths, skilled delivery ...