Background 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 aimed to...
This chapter describes communicable and infectious diseases and programs for their prevention, control, elimination, and eradication. Eradication refers to the total elimination of the organism from nature; elimination designates a stop in the circulation of the organism locally; and control means reducing...
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
Background Currently, zoonoses account for 58% to 61% of all communicable diseases causing illness in humans globally and up to 75% of emerging human patho... N Victoria,JM Sargeant,S Niko - 《Plos One》 被引量: 47发表: 2013年 Epidemiology of Major Non-communicable Diseases in Ethiopia: ...
Serious consideration is needed about which non-communicable diseases to discuss at this month's United Nations meeting if people in low income countries are to benefit.1 The diseases selected are more problematic in high income than in low income countries. Stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and ...
Adding that WHO has a leadership and coordination role in promoting and monitoring global action against non-communicable diseases. “With this Flagship Initiative we seek to strengthen WHO’s work in this field and continue to be a reliable and strong supporter of the WHO.”...
This trip report pertains to a visit during March 10-29 1997 whose purpose it was to develop a pilot site surveillance system for monitoring communicable diseases with epidemic potential in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia. The scope of work included arriving...
in population under the age of 39;Hyperpiesia was in the first place in population above the age of 40.The self-knowing rate of chronic diseases was 28.94%.The favorable way obtaining the chronic diseases knowledge was booklet.[Conclusion]Various steps of the chronic diseases prevention and ...
This study aimed to assess the relationship between knowledge of non-communicable diseases risk factors and screening service utilization. This community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected adult residents of North Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Central Ethiopia. Descriptive ...
Socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for non communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey BMC Public Health, 12 (2012), p. 1 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 14 Allen L, Cobiac L, Townsend N. Quantifying the global distribution of pre...