Browsing by Author "Mulugeta, Teklu"

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    Assessment of the practice of Strategic Plan of Private Insurance Companies in Ethiopia: The Case of Nyala Insurance Corporation
    (A.A.U, 2020-06) Mulugeta, Teklu; Shumey, Berhie (Dr.)
    Insurance companies, apart from the common dynamism in the business environment, are highly vulnerable to challenges with high failure rate as they bear the risks inherent in their operation and the risks transferred to them by way of insurance. Strategic planning emerged as an important management tool in or to cope up with the dynamism and retain competitive advantage. Strategic planning is a series of decisions taken to determine long-term objectives and includes the phases of environmental scanning, strategy formulation, strategy implementation and strategy monitoring and evaluation. The research problem is that as private Insurance Corporation are at the infant stage in the business area also researches have not been done well that can point out the major problems in strategic management process. findings show the strong aspects of the strategic management process are specialized plan to outperform the competitors, details about how managers must respond to any change in the business environment, redefines towards common goals, reflects the concern to effectively mobilize resource and maximize the organization’s chance to achieve the set objectives. And also loopholes in the process are it is a complex process, time consuming, difficult to implement and requires skillful planning. Stakeholders such as customers, reinsurers, intermediaries 11 (sales agents, brokers), garages and medical service providers aren’t involved in the stakeholder analysis proceedings, the SWOT Analysis is almost identical to the one under the previous period also in some cases is mixed with the ways of exploiting the SWOT or the strategy, Some of the corporate objectives aren’t measurable and Necessary guidance on preparation of business plans is given. Based on the above findings of the study recommendations are also forwarded. Future research could include an in-depth and wider study of the most appropriate strategy practices by showing the link between the four phases of the strategic management process
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    Socio-Economic, Environmental, and Behavioural Factors Associated with the Occurrence of Diarrhoeal Disease among Under-Five Children, Meskanena Mareko Woreda, Southern Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2003-05) Mulugeta, Teklu; Kumie, Abera(PhD); Deyessa, Nigussie(PhD)
    Diarrhoeal diseases are still the major cause of morbidity and mortality among children in many developing countries, including Ethiopia. There is a general agreement that the cause of child mortality and morbidity in developing countries is multi-factorial. Interaction of socioeconomic, biological, behavioural and environmental factors influences the survival of children. This comparative cross-sectional study was carried out to examine the effects of socio-economic, environmental and behavioural factors that were associated with childhood diarrhoea in Meskanena Mareko Woreda, between December 2002 and January 2003. A total of 987 households that had at least one under-five child were randomly selected from the nine peasant associations and one urban kebele that are found in the Butajira Rural Health Program catchments. Information on the households' socio-economic, environmental and behavioural characteristics was collected using structured, pre-tested questionnaire. Diarrhoeal morbidity occurred in the under-five children at the time of the interview, and the subsequent 15-days was registered to determine prevalence and incidence. The findings of this study showed that the overall two-week period prevalence of diarrhoea in under-fives was 51.4%, and that of incidence 12.9 percent. The point prevalence was found to be 38.5 percent. Significant variation was observed in prevalence of diarrhoea between urban and rural areas. Children in the age group 12 – 23 were highly affected. A logistic regression analysis showed that rural children had more than five times higher odds of having diarrhoea than their urban counterparts. The odds of having diarrhoea in children who lived in households where there were two or more children were two times higher than the odds in children who lived in households where there was only one child. Also, households that vii disposed refuse indiscriminately had children who had about two times higher odds of getting diarrhoea than households that burned or disposed the refuse in a pit. Maternal diarrhoeal morbidity and current breast-feeding were also found to be significant predictors of diarrhoeal morbidity in children. From the study it is concluded that the prevalence of diarrhoea in under-five children is very high in Meskanena Mareko Woreda, especially in children who reside in rural areas, and who are younger than two years of age. Poverty, crowding and poor environmental conditions are associated with the occurrence of diarrhoea in children. Even though these problems may be alleviated by sustainable socio-economic development through integrated effort of different sectors in the long run, recommendations are forwarded considering short-term solutions