Background: About three-fourth of adults with new onset epilepsy become seizure-free with current anti-epileptic drugs, but around one fourth of patients continue to experience seizure which increase ...
This is a recording of the third webinar from the course "Leveraging Primary Health Care Systems for Covid-19 Response: Lessons from Ethiopia's Health Extension Program (HEP)".
We have a standing PHC webinar series ...
Malnutrition in Ethiopia is still a major public health problem. Effective growth monitoring activities are difficult to integrate with local circumstances and a national program and are also given less weight. Therefore, ...
The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) is a global standard for
systematically monitoring adult tobacco use (smoking and
smokeless) and tracking key tobacco control indicators.
GATS is a nationally representative survey, ...
This is a webinar recording on gendered PHC systems, which was the second webinar of the IPHC-E's PHC webinar series 2022.
In this session, the focus was on Gender and PHC Systems and we had a chance to explore many ...
Introduction: In Ethiopia, a country which is one of the six countries contributing 50% of at least 1,600 maternal deaths daily worldwide from the complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Besides, one in ...
Beyene, Yonas(Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, 2021-06-30)
Background: Gestational weight gain is rise in weight of pregnant women from conception to delivery. During pregnancy abnormal weight gain (excess or inadequate) is associated with many adverse maternal and fetal outcomes, ...
The Ethiopian Food and Drug Authority (EFDA) is striving and exerting efforts to become a
strong and resilient regulatory authority so as to safeguard the health of the Ethiopian
population from health risks associated ...
Introduction: The main purpose of growth monitoring is to prevent growth faltering and under nutrition. It helps to recognizing growth patterns of children needing special attention (like low birth weight, ...
Medical devices are essential components of the health care system and are crucial in the prevention,
diagnosis, and treatment of disease and in rehabilitation. However, medical devices that no longer meet
specifications ...