Background: Wellbeing of healthcare workers (HCWs) is important for the effective functioning of health systems; it impacts the health service quality and patient outcome. HCWs are at an increased risk of stress and burnout both the nature of their work and their context of their work, but this has been little investigated in low income countries. The aim of this s...

Background: For decades, health targeted aid in the form of development assistance for health has been an important source of financing health sectors in developing countries. Health sectors in Sub Saharan countries in general and Ethiopia in particular, are even more heavily reliant upon donors. Consequently, a more audible donors support to health sectors was see...

Background: In Ethiopia, more than 62 % of pregnant women attend antenatal care (ANC) at least once and it is an opportunity for reaching pregnant women with a number of interventions that may be vital to their health and the well-being of their infants. However data on the extent to which providers utilize these opportunities remain limited especially in developin...

ackground: Medicine improves the quality of life and increases the improved the longevity of human beings as it helps to fights against several diseases. Access to essential medicines is the fundamental right of every person. Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) demarcates the list of essential medicines (EMs), as medicines that ―satisfy the priority heal...

Background: Household air pollution is among the top ranked global public health concern particularly in developing nations, like Africa. Eighty percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa and 90% of the Ethiopian population use biomass fuels for cooking. It is linked to many health problems including acute respiratory infection in children. The cause of this h...

Most of the documented benefits of contraceptive service lack in-depth exploration of the lived experiences of service users. This study of contraceptive users in the Sidama Zone, Southern Region, Ethiopia; was conducted with the aim of improving the overall understanding of contraceptive use towards women’s health and empowerment. This knowledge enables alignment ...

Background: The global distribution of tuberculosis is skewed heavily toward low-and-middle income countries, which accounted for about 87% of all estimated incident cases. Ethiopia is a low-income country in east Africa that remains highly afflicted by tuberculosis, with varying degrees of magnitudes across settings. However, there is a dearth of studies clarifyin...