ZAINAB SAID ABDULLAH (BSC); Dr. Abdu Omer; Mr. Berhe Gebremichael(HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY, 2025-09)
Background: Adequate maternal nutrient intake during pregnancy is important to ensure optimal
maternal health outcomes. But the usual dietary intake estimates are not comprehensive, is challenging
and prone to errors. ...
MUNIRA ISAK HUSSIEN; Mr. Berhe Gebremichael (MPH, Assistant Professor); Dr. Abdu Oumer (Phd. Assistant Professor)(Haramaya University, 2025-09)
Background: Adolescent undernutrition is global public health issue, especially in developing countries
like Somalia. Although adolescence is considered as a second window of opportunity to interrupt the
intergenerational ...
Background: - Adequate nutrition during the first two years of life is vital for brain and
physical development, preventing malnutrition, and ensuring long-term health. Proper nutrition
enhances cognitive function, ...
Background: Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as feeding breast milk only, for the first six
months, only 40% of children worldwide exclusively breastfed which is far from the
recommendation, while in Africa only 37% ...
MILION AMARE; Berhe G/Micheal; Dr. Ibsa Mussa(Haramaya University, 2025-12)
Background: Malnutrition is a major global health problem and remains a critical
concern in low-income countries. Community-based nutrition interventions, such as
Mother-to-Mother Support Groups (MtMSGs), are recognized ...
Kedir Jemal; Mr. Berhe Gebremichael; Mr. Melake Demena(Haramaya University, 2023-10)
Background: Nutritional knowledge is important because it helps battle malnutrition. A lack of knowledge regarding nutrition and unhealthy eating habits are linked to inadequate and unbalanced nutrition in adolescence. ...
Nutritional knowledge is important because it helps battle malnutrition. A lack of
knowledge regarding nutrition and unhealthy eating habits are linked to inadequate and
unbalanced nutrition in adolescence. Unhealthy ...
Mohammed Jemal; Dr. Kedir Teji; Mr Assefa Tola(Haramaya University, 2023-12)
Poor consumption of diet can have a negative impact that long-lasting effects on health,
and affects the physiology and mental capacity of the individuals. Many studies have been done on food
security, but limited ...
Background: Undernutrition is one of the major public health problems affecting children in
developing settings. Despite impressive interventions like PSNP, there is limited information
on the association between stunting ...
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a life-threatening condition that is responsible
for high morbidity and mortality among children under 5 years of age in the world. Children with
severe malnutrition have an increased ...
Birth weight plays an important role in infant mortality, morbidity, development,
and future health. Low birth weight is one of the public health problems in the globe and it is an
indicator of the health of the newborn ...
Back ground: Wasting or acute malnutrition is one forms of under nutrition that is threatening
life and resulted from hunger and/or disease; it continued to threaten the lives of an estimated 6.7
percent or 45.4 million. ...
Background: The global promotion of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of an infant's life is challenged by the presence of breast milk substitutes that is Alternative foods marketed as replacements for breast ...
: Rickets is a metabolic bone disease caused in bones. It is a nutrient deficiency
manifestation particularly for calcium and vitamin D from sunlight. It remains prevalent in
developing regions of the world and rank ...
Background: Food choice is based on the interactions between environmental and individual factors. Pastorals marginalized from national economies and political systems, their needs not adequately addressed in national ...
Background: Undernutrition makes the child more vulnerable to morbidity and mortality and
has been linked to delayed mental development, poorer educational attainment and lower
intellectual and physical abilities in ...
Childhood diarrhea is amajor public health problem especially in developing countries,
including inEthiopia. Ethiopia has been advocated promotion of open defecation free (ODF) to
decrease the burden of diarrhea. . ...
Folate inadequacy in pregnancy has been associated with several adverse
outcomes, including folate-responsive neural-tube defects, neural crest disorders, fetal growth
retardation, low birth weight, preterm delivery, ...
Background: Fast foods are foods that are prepared, processed, and served quickly in fast food
outlets. It is categorized under group four according to the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations NOVA ...
Background: Childhood anemia, a hemoglobin concentration less than 11 g/dl, is multi-factorial
health problem among 6 to 59 months’ children that causes significant morbidity and mortality.
Although anemia among children ...