Background: Diarrheal diseases are the leading cause of preventable childhood death, especially in developing countries and it is the second leading cause of death in under-five year children next to pneumonia. In Ethiopia, ...
Background: - Household water treatment and safe storage interventions are proven to improve water quality and reduce diarrheal disease incidence in developing countries. Most rural population of Ethiopia did not practice ...
Background: Menstruation is biological change and associated with puberty girls. It can be easily affected by school environment such as water, latrine with private and dignity, sanitary pad and soap availability. It can ...
Background: Globally Sustainable Development Goal adapted to achieve at least basic sanitation facilities but still in Sub Sharan Africa including Ethiopia has very low achievement. In urban setting of Ethiopia only a ...
Background: Oral hygiene practice includes all the processes for keeping mouth clean and healthy. Good oral hygiene practice is necessary for prevention of bad breath, dental caries, and periodontal disease.
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Background: Women’s role in sanitation decision-making is often ignored area, due to their burden of household chores. There is limited evidence on women’s role in sanitation decision- making and its associated factors, ...
Background: Food safety is a public health concern. An adequate supply of safe, wholesome, and healthy food is essential to the health and well-being of humans. People can get sick when they eat food contaminated with food ...
Background: - Scabies is one of the widespread but neglected parasitic diseases and it is a major public health concern worldwide and in resource-scarce countries. Scabies affects all age groups and both sexs however, it ...
Introduction: Biomedical waste management is the process of segregation, storage, treatment, disposal and other safety measures of waste in the health institutions and it is an important precondition to safe guard the ...
Background: Trachoma is still the major public health problem in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Intervention measures such as mass drug administration have been implemented to reduce the problem. However, the prevalence of ...
Back ground: solid waste collection problem is a major public problem in developing world including Ethiopian even if the government implements different strategies and small enterprises are organized at each city level, ...
Back ground: - Intestinal parasitic infection is one of the parasitic infections affecting people living in prison. Helminthes and intestinal protozoan infections are the most common parasitic infection that may cause ...
Households and solid waste station responsibility were found to have significant association with
community’s satisfaction on small scale solid waste collection enterprises in Gondar city Background: Community satisfaction ...
Background: Small scale industries are often the main pillar of an economy. Accidents, ergonomics problems, old and outdated machinery, and lack of awareness about safety practices have created a need for implementation ...
Background: Unimproved water consumption, unimproved sanitation and open defecation indicated as poor water, sanitation and hygiene practices remain a public health challenge in developing countries, including Ethiopia. ...
Back ground: Soil-transmitted helminths are a major public problem in Ethiopia. Even if deworming and preventive chemotherapy is implemented, however the problem and associated factors of soil transmitted helminthiasis ...
Background: Intestinal parasitic infections caused by pathogenic helminthes and protozoan species are endemic throughout the world. Intestinal parasitic infection is one of the ten top major public health problems in ...
Introduction: Sustainable development goal mandates to ensure equitable sanitation, end open defecation and paying special attention to needs of people in vulnerable situations. People with physical disability are under ...
Background: Ethiopia has been encountering a higher predominance of communicable illnesses, which come about in high morbidity, mortality, and hospital admission rates. One of the higher contributing factors for this can ...
Back ground: Open defecation is a serious sanitation issue globally most developing countries are battling with it. The situation is even worse in the sub-Saharan African countries including Ethiopia, despite various ...