Background: In Ethiopia, only 48% of all births occur at health facilities. Disrespect and abuse of women by health providers during child birth is one of the main reasons that affect health care seeking from health facilities. Providing compassionate and respectful maternity care services to...
BACKGROUND:Health facilities generate different types of wastes characterized as hazardous wastes and most of them are toxic, harmful, carcinogenic, and infectious materials.rnThose contaminated wastes may affect health workers, waste handlers and laundry personnel. Medical Waste handlers faced...
Background: Wood dust is known to generate a wide variety of airborne wood dusts. Wood dust in a form of inhalable particulates can penetrate the lung tissues and affect respiratory health. There is limited study in chronic respiratory symptoms and wood dust exposure studies in...
Introduction: Maternal costs, due to complications are very expensive kind of catastrophic cost expenditure which can put households into poverty. However data is not available in Ethiopian mothers. This study aims to asses the cost of treating maternal complications and factors associated with...
Background: Risky sexual behaviour is the activity that will increase the probability of being infected with sexually transmitted infections, or become pregnant or make a partner pregnant. Adolescents and youth constitute 33.8% of the total population of Ethiopia. These groups of population face...
Background: The global distribution of tuberculosis is skewed heavily toward low-and-middlernincome countries, which accounted for about 87% of all estimated incident cases. Ethiopia is arnlow-income country in east Africa that remains highly afflicted by tuberculosis, with varyingrndegrees of...
Background: Health care expenditure is increasing worldwide. Determining the unit cost of medical services is one part of economic analysis which helps to improve efficient use of scarce resource. It is also a vital indicator needed by managers and policy makers. Most of the health institutions in...
Background; - Ethiopia is one of the countries with higher maternal mortality in the world that was estimated 11,000 in 2015 alone. Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) is important measure to improve utilization of maternal health which contributes for reducing maternal mortality....
Background: In child development, the first two years have critical importance. At this stage breast milk is an important source of nutrition but the breastfeeding practice is poor and it is decreasing. The effect of developmental delay is pronounced in developing countries due to limited access to...
Introduction: Low bed occupancy rate (BOR) is the one of the biggest problem of thernhospital. As a result it brings the indication of low quality health care services, customer andrnstaff dissatisfaction and poor revenue generation. In this study measured and improved bedrnoccupancy rate focused...
Background: International travellers are exposed to various risks before, during or after travel and many travellers, apart from being at risk of infection from their new destinations also tend to transmit infection from one country to another. Travellers intending to visit a destination are...
Background: Injuries in small scale enterprises are becoming a public health problem in developing countries including Ethiopia. The prevailing injuries could be prevented if appropriate measures are taken. In developing countries including Ethiopia, the risk of having work related injury is 10 to...
Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) program in field epidemiology adapted from thernUnited States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Servicern(EIS) program and designed to assist the Ministry of Health in building or strengthening healthrnsystems and...
This thesis focused on assessment of the hydraulic performance of existing water distribution system: arncase study on Finote-Selam town, Amhara region, Ethiopia. The main objective of this study is to checkrnthe hydraulic performance of Finote-Selam town water distribution system by assessing...
Water network performance is defined as the ability to deliver a required quantity of waterrnunder sufficient pressure and an acceptable level of quality. Systems that have bigrntransmission line may have problem on changes of pressure in the distribution system.rnBecause pressure rate changes...
The main objective of this study was to investigate the existing Hawassa city stormwater drainagernproblems with respect to its hydraulic performance. The methodological approaches employed inrnthis study include; the identification of the existing stormwater drainage network flow direction,rnand...
Evaluating the impacts of land use on surface water quality and quantity based on temporalrnand spatial variation using the integrated watershed (SWAT) and water quality modelsrn(WASP) were the aims of this study. SWAT model’s performance was assessed using Nash–rnSutcliffe...
Water used for different purposes is harvested in the watershed system; largely in the riverrnbasin system. To maintain the requirement of these purposes, both quantity and quality ofrnwater for ecological, social and economical development could be manage appropriatelyrnthrough integrated water...
Flood generation became a common incident in Mekelle because of low vegetation cover and the vastlyrnspreading land cover that accompanies development also results in less water being available forrninfiltration into the ground. Moreover, the increasingly constructing impervious structures...
Wastewater from human dwellings and activities has been a primary target of manyrntreatment technologies, including constructed wetlands. Constructed wetland technologiesrnfor wastewater treatment is characterized by specific conditions enabling simultaneousrnvarious physical and biochemical...