Situation analysis on healthy life of children’s wellbeing in Ethiopia

Abstract

Introduction: Children in Ethiopia suffer from very high burden of illness and death, and their health care falls far short of what is required to address the root causes of children illness and death and improve the capacity of stakeholders to meet their obligations to offer protection for children.

Objective: To assess the healthy life of children’s wellbeing in Ethiopia by identify key gaps that causes very high burden of illness and death requirements  to address wellbeing of children.

Methods: This article was involved a systematic literature review of secondary sources. It engaged collecting of published articles related to the topic and analyzing.

Results: The major causes of neonatal mortality (2010-2015) were birth asphyxia and birth trauma (31.6%), prematurity (21.8%) and sepsis and other infectious conditions of newborns, while those of child (1-59 months) mortality were acute lower respiratory infections (24.9%), diarrheal diseases (15.4%) and injuries (13.3%). Nutritional conditions with communicable diseases has a combined death effects of 4.5-4.8%, 10.4-12.5% and 8-9% in 0-27 days, 1-59 months and 0-4 years neonates and children respectively in Ethiopia.

Availability of selected health care services for under five years children in Ethiopia was between 7% and 53% in 2011. Contraceptive prevalence, among girls aged 15-19 years was estimated 8.9% in 2011. The percentage of women aged 15-19 with a live birth that received antenatal care provided by skilled health personnel at least once during pregnancy was 9.6% in 2011. In 2013, an estimated 55% of pregnant women living with HIV received ART for preventing Mother-to-Child transmission.

Conclusion:   Even though Ethiopia has achieved considerable gains in maternal and child health care, a lot remains to be done to attain acceptable levels of child wellbeing.At least 15 gaps identified that need special attention for child health care from this assessment.To reduce the high level of children illness and death, Ethiopia need to work at all level with identified stakeholders. This requires focus on building the capacity of internal and external actors.