Appraisal of Public Health Service Provisions at Community Level in Masha Woreda of Sheka Zone: SNNPR
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2011-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The development and provision of equitable and acceptable standard of health service to
all segments of population of Ethiopia has been a major objective of the 1993 national
health policy. The health sector strategy adopted to implement the policy and focuses on
giving comprehensive and integrated public health services by doing in cooperation with
the concerned bodies to minimize challenges hindering the service delivery and to give
equitable and whole addressing service.
Hence healthy society is the key for development, studying about service provision and
its challenges as a planner and indicating possible mechanisms to balance the existing
resources and the service need is also beneficial. So, this research study is done on the
objective of assessing the status of provision of public health service, identifying the
main challenge and analysing its cause as well as determining the possible measures
being implemented to deliver fair health service with existing challenges and available
resources is done by taking Masha Woreda as a study area.
This paper includes literatures reviewed from different sources, which are related to the
studied topic and strategies being implemented to make fair provision of health services.
It took 4 sample Kebeles which are selected purposively on distance difference from the
capital of the Woreda. One hundred forty two samples were selected randomly from each
purposively sampled Kebeles as a primary data sources and written document such as
annual reports and strategic plans from the Woreda health department as a secondary data sources.
Data are gathered from these sources by using both open ended and closed ended
questionnaires semi structured interviews of households of the Kebeles. The data
gathered from the mentioned sources are analysed by using SPSS tools like cross
tabulations, tables showing percentages and frequencies
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Geography and Environmental Studies