Background: A maternal near-miss event or severe acute maternal morbidity is defined by the World Health Organization as „a woman who nearly died but survived a complication that occurred during pregnancy, childbirth or ...

Background: The global distribution of tuberculosis is skewed heavily toward low-and-middle income countries, which accounted for about 87% of all estimated incident cases. Ethiopia is a low-income country in east Africa ...

Background: Wellbeing of healthcare workers (HCWs) is important for the effective functioning of health systems; it impacts the health service quality and patient outcome. HCWs are at an increased risk of stress and burnout ...

Background: Knowledge, attitude and practice gaps are among the main challenges in providing quality basic health services to the urban community. This can be among the reasons for low tuberculosis case detection by urban ...

Background: Tuberculosis is among major public health problems throughout the world and leading cause of death among curable infectious disease. The World Health Organization lists Ethiopia as one of the 30 high burden ...

Background: Due to the failure of proper healthcare resource allocation and poor affordability to health services, many citizens are exposed to impoverishment from health shocks and catastrophic out of pocket health ...

Background: Neonatal mortality in low-and middle-income countries has shown slow decline and marked disparities across regions and countries. In Ethiopia, despite making overall progress in child survival, deaths among ...

Background: The rising burden of chronic illness represents major challenges for our current health-care systems. Generally, our current health care system mainly focuses on an acute care management and short-term goals; ...

Introduction: Health Extension program is designed and implemented in recognition of the fact that the major factor underlying the poor health status of the country’s population is the lack of empowerment of households and ...

Background: A well designed Health management information system is necessary for improving health service effectiveness and efficiency. It helps to produce quality information and conduct evidence based monitoring, adjusting ...