Fikadu Nugusu, Madda Walabu University The majority of new born deaths occur at home where few families recognize signs of newborn illness. Thus, this study was intended to assess the level of knowledge and health care seeking behavior about neonatal danger signs and associated factors among mothers in Gasera district, Ethiopia. Community based cross sectional…
Month: August 2019
“Qualitative to clinical: Community perceptions of causes of child death and approaches to sensitization of biomedical interventions in Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia”
Berhanu Damise & Ketema Degefa, CHAMPS Ethiopia Caroline Ackley, University of Sussex In Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia, verbal autopsy (VA) has been used as the primary method of determining causes of under-5 child death where the definitive cause of the death is still unknown due to lack of reliable data (HDSS, 2016). Therefore, providing accurate and…
Anthropological Approaches To Understanding Child & Maternal Mortality
Yenenesh Tilahun The Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Child and Maternal Mortality, and Recommendations for Improving Health Outcomes Symposium invited social science researchers to share their evidence-based insights on maternal and child health in Ethiopia. They were also encouraged to provide recommendations on ways to improve health outcomes. The symposium aimed to understand child and maternal…
Global Engagement Fund takes UCL Anthropology to Ethiopia
Caroline Ackley, Timothy Carroll, Aaron Parkhurst In January 2019, Timothy Carroll (UCL) and Aaron Parkhurst (UCL) – funded by the UCL Global Engagement Fund – partnered with Caroline Ackley (LSHTM, now Sussex) to establish a network, focusing on issues of medical materiality within maternal and infant health. The Engagement programme included a short series on…