Background: Under-five mortality rate, often known by its acronym U5MR, indicates the probability of dying between birth and five years age, expressed per 1,000 live births. Globally, 16,000 children under-five still die every day. Especially in Sub-Saharan Africa 1 child 12, before his or her fifth birthday. This study aims to identify determinants among women bearing age group Tach-Armachiho ...

Introduction/Objective. Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common comorbidities among subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary (COPD). The aim this study to evaluate electrocardiogram (ECG) parameters and mortality predictors in COPD patients. Methods. A total 835 consecutive patients were included. classified suffer from if forced expiratory volume first second (FEV1) vital capacity ...

BACKGROUND Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for a reduction in the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, which corresponds to an annual rate of decline of 4.4%. The United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation estimates under-five mortality in every country to measure progress. For the majority of countries, the estimates within a country are base...

BACKGROUND Child mortality reflects a country's level of socio-economic development and quality of life. In Ethiopia, limited studies were conducted on under-five mortality and almost none of them tried to identify the spatial effect on mortality. Thus, this study explored the small area clustering of under-five mortality and associated factors in Kersa HDSS, Eastern Ethiopia. METHODS The stu...

BACKGROUND Though the socio-economic situation of the Ethiopian household is improving along with the decrease in under-five child mortality. But, under-five mortality is still one of the major problems. Identification of the risk factors change over time which mismatches with the diminishing rate of under-five mortality is important to address the problems. METHODS The survey data used for t...