Background: Stunting defined as a deficit in height relative to a child’s age. Childhood stunting
is one of the most significant impediments to human development. Stunting is a major health
problem in children under-five ...
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is one of harmful traditional practice in developing countries including Ethiopia. This practice causes significant and irreversible damage to the physical, psychological and sexual health ...
Malnutrition is the most common health problem affecting both children and adults in Ethiopia. According to 2014 EDHS mini report nationally, 40 percent of children under age five are stunted, and 18 percent of children ...
The introduction of antiretroviral therapy in 1996 improved the longevity and wellbeing of peoples living with HIV in the industrialized world including children. This survival benefit of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in ...
Menarche, the first occurrence of menstruation in girls, is an important milestone in the development of female adolescent. Time to menarche is the duration from the birth of an individual to the occurrence of the first ...
Diabetes is a group of diseases marked by high or low level of glucose resulting from defects in
insulin production, insulin action or both. There are two main types of diabetes, namely type I
and Type II diabetes. The ...
Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease that has long been one of the major health problem. Survival analysis is a set of methods used for analysis of the data which exist until the occurrence of an event. Many ...
Hypertension is a chronic disease that has a major health problem over the centuries due to its significant contribution to the global health burden. According to World Health Organization, hypertension is the seventh ...
Background: Hypertension is a chronic disease that has a major health problem over the centuries
due to its significant contribution to the global health burden. According to World Health
Organization, hypertension is ...
World Health Organization (WHO) Annual Global TB Report, Ethiopia ranked 7th in the world for TB burden and 15th from 27 highest MDR-TB burden countries .The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health(FMOH) Hospital statistics ...
The survival time of HIV positive patients depends not only on the quality of care and highly active anti-retroviral therapy, but also on a host of other baseline demographic factors and clinical characteristics of the ...
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV attacks and destroys certain types of white blood cells that are essential to body's immune system, the biological ...
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a complex clinical syndrome that can result from any functional or structural cardiac disorder that impairs the ventricle’s ability to fill with or eject blood. There are different vital ...
quite a lot of methodology has been developed for the analysis of longitudinal studies, stemming from clinical trials, epidemiology, and other studies in humans. For example, hierarchical models are becoming ever more ...
The purpose of this study was to identify factors leading to mortality and statistically modeling the survival of premature infants. A sample of 490 preterm was taken from a hospital record at Jimma university specialized ...
Although neonatal mortality estimates continue to decline in Ethiopia over the years, it is a matter of a great concern among stake holders as the decline is not enough to reduce NM. Objective: The study aimed to investigate ...
Low birth weight (LBW) is a major determinant of morbidity, mortality and disability in infancy and childhood and has a long-term impact on health outcomes in adult life. It results in substantial costs to the health sector ...
Anemia is a problem characterized by insufficient red blood cell volume and a low concentration of hemoglobin in the blood (WHO, 2014). Anemia is a global public health problem that affects low, middle and high-income ...
Delivery care through access to health facilities and skilled health personnel are the main important interventions for safe motherhood. The presence of a trained health-care worker during delivery is vital in reducing ...