• Primary Health Care Digest Volume 3, Issue 2 

  IPHCE (IPHCE, 2024-04)

  The Digest covers topics on Leadership Training Program for the health workforce in Ethiopia, update on the World Health Organization recommended new malaria vaccine, non-communicable diseases burden and treatment, and ...
• National Guideline for the Management of Acute Malnutrition in Ethiopia 

  MOH (2019-08)

  Ethiopia is prone to recurrent droughts that impact food security and water availability, and contribute to high rates of malnutrition in the country. Over the past decade, the Government has applied a two-pronged approach ...
• International Pre Conference on Primary Health Care ICPHC 2022 Proceeding Report 

  IPHCE (2022)

  In September 2022, over 500 attendees were welcomed on September 7-8, 2022 to the virtual pre-conference event hosted by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health in collaboration with the International Institute for Primary ...
• Utilisation of growth monitoring and promotion services and associated factors among mothers of children younger than 2 years in Gondar Zuria District, northwest Ethiopia: a community-based, cross-sectionalstudy 

  Aysheshim Kassahun Belew; Netsanet Worku; Kassahun Alemu Gelaye; Kedir Abdela Gonete; Melkamu Tamir Hunegnaw; Esmael Ali Muhammad; Tigist Astale; Getnet Mitike; Zegeye Abebe (BMJ, 2024-02-08)

  Objective The study aimed to assess the utilisation of growth monitoring and promotion services and the associated factors among mothers of children under 2 years old in Gondar Zuria District, northwest Ethiopia.
• International Conference on Primary Health Care ICPHC 2023 Proceeding Report 

  IPHC-E (IPHCE, 2024-01)

  In the spirit of shared wisdom and collaborative exploration, we proudly present the conference proceedings of the International Conference on Primary Health Care 2023. This compilation stands as a testament to the ...
• International Conference on Primary Health Care Agenda 

  IPHC-E (2023-09)
• Beyond Astana: Configuring the World Health Organization Collaborating Centres for Primary Health Care 

  Resham B. Khatri; Peter S. Hill; Eskinder Wolka; Frehiwot Nigatu; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, 2023-07-28)

  The understanding of primary health care (PHC) has evolved significantly, evident in key World Health Organization (WHO) reports, promoting PHC as a means for health for all, identifying key health systems reforms and ...
• Multisectoral actions in primary health care: A realist synthesis of scoping review 

  Resham B Khatri; Daniel Erku; Aklilu Endalamaw; Eskinder Wolka; Frehiwot Nigatu; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa (2023)

  Background: Multisectoral actions (MSAs) on health are key to implementation of primary health care (PHC) and achieving the targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 3. However, there is limited understanding and ...
• Successes and challenges towards improving quality of primary health care services: a scoping review. 

  Aklilu Endalamaw; Resham B Khatri; Daniel Erku; Frehiwot Nigatu; Anteneh Zewdie; Eskinder Wolka; Yibeltal Assefa (2023)

  Background: Quality health services build communities' and patients' trust in health care. It enhances the acceptability of services and increases health service coverage. Quality primary health care is imperative for ...
• Continuity and care coordination of primary health care: a scoping review. 

  Resham Khatri 1 2, Aklilu Endalamaw 3 4, Daniel Erku 5 6, Eskinder Wolka 7, Frehiwot Nigatu 7, Anteneh Zewdie 7, Yibeltal Assefa 3 (2023)

  Background: Healthcare coordination and continuity of care conceptualize all care providers and organizations involved in health care to ensure the right care at the right time. However, systematic evidence synthesis is ...
• Factors influencing the uptake and utilization of cervical cancer screening services among women attending public health centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: mixed methods study 

  Kemal Hussein; Gilbert Kokwaro; Francis Wafula; Getnet Mitike Kassie (BMC Women's Health, 2024-01-02)

  Background Cervical cancer is the second cause of cancer deaths among Ethiopian women. Despite multifaceted government efforts, the uptake and utilization of cervical cancer screening remain very low. This study aimed ...
• Countries PHC system experience: Lessons from Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia 

  IPHC-E (IPHC-E, 2023-07-07)
• Community-based health insurance webinar recording 

  IPHC-E (IPHC-E, 202-05-02)
• Influence of contextual factors on strengthening key strategic and operational levers of primary healthcare to achieve universal health coverage: A protocol for a realist review 

  Frehiwot Nigatu; Aklilu Endalamaw; Eskinder Wolka; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa; Daniel Erku; Resham Khatri (BMG OPEN, 2023-03-20)

  Introduction Existing scoping reviews on the link between primary healthcare (PHC) and universal health coverage (UHC) have not sufficiently addressed the underlying causal mechanisms in which key strategic and ...
• Community engagement initiatives in primary health care to achieve universal health coverage: A realist synthesis of scoping review 

  Frehiwot Nigatu; Aklilu Endalamaw; Eskinder Wolka; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa; Daniel Erku; Resham Khatri (PLOS ONE, 2023-05-03)

  Community engagement (CE) is an essential component in a primary health care (PHC) and there have been growing calls for service providers to seek greater CE in the planning, design, delivery and evaluation of PHC services. ...
• Successes, weaknesses, and recommendations to strengthen primary health care: a scoping review 

  Aklilu Endalamaw; Daniel Erku; Resham B. Khatri; Frehiwot Nigatu; Eskinder Wolka; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa (2023)

  Background Primary health care (PHC) is a roadmap for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). There were several fragmented and inconclusive pieces of evidence needed to be synthesized. Hence, we synthesized evidence to ...
• Practical contribution of women development army on growth monitoring and promotion service at Dembya and Gondar Zuria districts, Central Gondar Zone, North West Ethiopia: A community based mixed study 

  Esmael Ali Muhammad, Melkamu Tamir Hunegnaw, Kedir Abdela Gonete, Netsanet Worku, Kasahun Alemu, Zegeye Abebe, Tigist Astale, Getnet Mitike & Aysheshim Kassahun Belew (BMC health service research, 2023)

  The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-2 aims to eliminate child hunger or end all forms of child malnutrition by 2030. To achieve this goal the cost-effective method is the implementation of growth monitoring ...
• Primary Health Care Digest Volume 3, Issue 1 

  IPHC-E (IPHCE, 2023-06)

  Welcome to the third volume of the International Institute for Primary Health Care-Ethiopia’s (IPHC-E) Primary Health Care Digest! The purpose of the Digest is to share the latest news and research on primary health care ...
• Functionality of nutrition steering and technical committees and quality of child growth monitoring program in northwest Ethiopia 

  Aysheshim Kassahun Belew; Netsanet Worku; Kassahun Alemu Gelaye; Kedir Abdella Gonete; Melkamu Tamir Hunegnaw; Esmeal Ali Muhammad; Getnet Mitike; Ayenew Molla Lakew; Zegeye Abebe (s[ringer, 2023-05-25)

  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, ...
• Workload and emerging challenges of community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review 

  Tigist AstaleID; Tsegereda Abebe; Getnet Mitike (PLOS ONE, 2023-03-13)

  Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in improving access to health ser- vices to a broader population; particularly to communities living in remote areas. However, the productivity of CHWs is affected ...

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