Background: Mortality in African children is unacceptably high. Providing free health care to young children has been hypothesized to improve access to health care and lead to better health outcomes. However, there have ...

Background Employing universal precautions means taking precautions with everybody. If precautions are taken with everyone, health care workers do not have to make assumptions about people's lifestyles and risk of ...

Bipolar disorder is a severe mental illness characterized by recurrent manic and depressive or mixed episodes. Bipolar disorder leads to a significant impairment in functioning, considerable stigma and premature mortality. ...

Background: Dust exposure is one of the major risk factors for health in many work places including coffee processing factories. Dust generates at different stages of coffee handling and processing. Excessive exposure ...

Background: Currently, diabetes mellitus (DM) is considered as one of the top health problems of the World. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that, globally, hyperglycemia is the third highest risk factor for ...

Background: - Lower respiratory tract infections are a leading cause of mortality worldwide, causing 1.6 million deaths annually in adults. Excluding tuberculosis they are the third most common cause of death worldwide ...

Background: Household air pollution is among the top ranked global public health concern particularly in developing nations, like Africa. Eighty percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa and 90% of the Ethiopian ...

Background: Husband involvement is an important intervention for improving maternal health, and is considered as a crucial step in scaling up women’s use of prenatal care. The idea of men’s involvement in reproductive ...

Background Intimate partner violence against women is a psychological, physical, and sexual abuse directed towards spouses. Globally it is the most pervasive yet underestimated human rights violation. Intimate ...

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 ...