Assessment of Health Service Extension Packages Utilization and Barriers that Affect Service Utilization in Dandi District, West Showa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia.
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2010-06
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: In 2005, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) in Ethiopia realized that health service were not meeting the health needs at the community level. In response to this, the FMOH launched a new innovative program called the health Extension program(HEP).TheHEPfocusesonunderservedsuch as: mothers, neonates, children and rural communities and places, basically emphasis on preventive, promotive and selected curative health care practice. Utilization of healthcare services is a right of all citizens, an important determinant of health and has particular relevance as a public health and development issue in low income countries.
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Health Service ,Utilization , Barriers