Essential newborn care practice and its associated factors in Southwest Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Essential newborn care is a wide-ranging strategy intended to improve the health of newborns by implementing appropriate interventions. Approximately in 2018, an estimated 2.5 million children died in their first month of life, which is approximately 7000, newborns every day, with about a third of all neonatal deaths occurring within the first day after birth. Even though the most cause of death is preventable the burden of neonatal death is a still high in developing countries including Ethiopia. Therefore this study is aimed to assess the level of essential newborn care practice among mothers who gave birth within the past six months in Gurage Zone, Southwest Ethiopia.

Methods

A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among mothers who gave birth wit

SUBMITTER: Abebe H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011223 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature