Background Early essential newborn care is one of the important interventions developed by
the World Health Organization to reduce morbidities and mortalities in neonates. This study …

Background Neonatal mortality can be reduced by providing essential newborn care.
However, it is overlooked by most healthcare providers in Ethiopia. Hence, this study aims to …

Background: Every year, more than 2.7 million new-borns die before reaching neonatal age
in the world, with the majority of these deaths occurring at home. Surprisingly, half of these …

Abstract Background Globally, 2.7 million children die during the neonatal period annually.
Ethiopia is one of the ten countries with the highest number of neonatal deaths. The practice …

Background Essential Newborn Care is a set of strategic and cost-effective interventions
planned to improve the health of newborns through the care they receive from birth up to 28 …

Background. This study was designed to understand the patterns and determinants of three
essential newborn care practices: safe cord care, optimal thermal care, and neonatal …

Essential newborn care is a wide-ranging approach planned to improve the health of
newborn through interventions after pregnancy. In Ethiopia, about 120,000 newborns die …

Background Evidences have demonstrated the effectiveness of early essential newborn
care. However, the implementation of early essential newborn care is suboptimal. The aim is …

Introduction. Neonatal mortality contributes a higher percentage of infant mortality,
especially in developing countries including Ethiopia where the rate of institutional delivery …

Background Ministries of health in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) have been scaling up early essential …