EthiopiaBackground Health literacy plays a prominent role in empowering individuals for prevention as well as management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, there is paucity of information on the health literacy of patients with non-communicable diseases in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study ...
Martin-in-the-Fields alone there died 421.” Public Health and the Control of Communicable Disease Organized public health emerged out of the sanitation movement of the mid-nineteenth century, which sought to reduce the environmental and social factors in communicable disease (Box 4.2). ...
Background Ethiopia lacks a complete vital registration system that would assist in measuring disease burden and risk factors. We used the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 (GBD 2015) estimates to describe the mortali
Non-communicable disease risk factor profile among public employees in a regional city in northern EthiopiaThe burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing in Ethiopia. This study aims to describe the prevalence of NCD risk factors of public employees in a regional city in northern ...
The Flagship Initiative includes developing equitable pathways of care for non-communicable disease (NCD) in Ethiopia, Ghana, Myanmar, and Nepal, as well as activities related to NCD risk factor reduction, covering tobacco, alcohol, air pollution, unhealthy diets, and lack of physical activity. The...
Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease... KT Woo,HL Choong,KS Wong,... - 《Kidney International》 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 (Clinical Chemistry track). Advisers 3 1.3 Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Ethiopia ... 5 1.4 Epidemiology of Diabetes ... D ...
This study found that the use of NCD screening was very low. Knowledge of NCD risk factors was strongly associated with screening utilization. This highlights the importance of improving adult knowledge of noncommunicable disease risk factors in Ethiopia....
We examined the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and associated factors among adults living with CNCDs in the Ho Municipality. Methods This was a health facility-based descriptive cross-sectional study among 432 adults living with cancer, diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CKD), stroke, and...
The impact of dietary risk factors on the burden of non-communicable diseases in Ethiopia: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013 The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has increased in sub-Saharan countries, including Ethiopia. The contribution of dietary behaviours to the ...
which are particularly critical for managing NCDs. A study conducted in Ethiopia that assessed the cause of medical costs observed substantial burden due to OOP for direct medical costs for a large number of NCDs (e.g., ischemic heart disease, asthma, stroke) which led the population to substa...