Pediatrics & Therapeutics
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0665
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2161-0665
+44 1478 350008
Department of Public Health, Arbaminch General hospital, Arba Minch, Ethiopia
Research Article
Immediate Newborn Care Practice and Associated Factors Among Health Care Providers in Arbaminch Town Govermental Health Institutions of Southern Ethiopia: Facility Based Cross-Sectional Study
Author(s): Sofiya Bushera*, Wanzahun Godana and Direslign Miskir
Background and objectives: Globally under-five and infant mortality rates had declined over the past four decades, but high neonatal mortality rates had remained relatively unchanged. Neonatal death account for 43% of under-five child deaths globally and account for 42% of under-five mortality in Ethiopia. And this mortality is related to immediate obstetric and newborn care of babies provided by health provider’s related to immediate newborn care and their associated factors among health care provider’s in Arba Minch town public health facilities. Study was help cost effective because benefits family members from the medical expense, saving the life of a newborn baby, as a source of information health professionals, health programmers, researchers and policy makers. To assess, the status of immediate newborn care practice and associated factors among heal.. View More»
DOI:
10.35841/2161-0665.22.12.460