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Findings of A Nutrition Survey Denan woreda, Gode Zone, Somali region, 2006

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Id	EPHI-DS0315
Name	Findings of A Nutrition Survey Denan woreda, Gode Zone, Somali region, 2006
Format	. SAV
Coverage Location	Zonal
Coverage Sex	Both
Abstract	This survey was conducted in the Somali Region Denan Woreda of Gode Zone by Goal Ethiopia among selected clusters among children aged 6 and 59 months. The objective of this survey was to estimate the prevalence of acute and chronic malnutrition, examine the current health status of the survey population by considering mortality and morbidity rates and child vitamin A supplementation and vaccination status, and assess the food security situation among children aged 6 to 59 months. The findings of this survey revealed that; A total of 23.5 % of them were classified as global acute malnutrition (GAM), which includes 3.1% of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The crude mortality rate and under-five mortality rates were estimated at 1.97 and 6.69 deaths/10,000/day respectively. About 8.3 % of the children suffered from diarrhea, 6.8 % from ARI, and 7.8 % from malaria. The percentage of children vaccinated against measles by the recall and or card, TB (BCG) by scar, and who received vitamin A in the last 6 months were 9.4 %, 5.0 %, and 43.1 % of the respondents respectively. Regarding household’s main livelihood 39.5 %, 9.6 %, 53.0, 85.9, 10.7 %, and 3.7 % were agriculturalists, agro-pastoralists, relied on relief as their most an important source of food in the past 4 weeks, reported eating more than 2 meals per day get clean water from protected spring and piped water respectively. On the other hand, the findings from community discussion 46.7%, 93.3, 50.0%, and 93.4 of the communities agreed that they traveled to get health facility for one or more hours, of communities, responded that pasture condition was below average or that there was no pasture.
Additional Material	No
Keywords	Nutrition malnutrition acute malnutrion vaccination measles TB water survey preliminary report Denan woreda Gode Zone Somali Region
Recommended	Yes
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Cleaned	Yes
Cleaned Format	. csdb
RawFormat	. csdb
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Date Data Collection Started	2006-01-21
Date Data Collection End	2006-01-26
Title	Findings of A Nutrition Survey Denan woreda, Gode Zone, Somali region, 2006
Data Type	Survey
PublicationYear	2000
SugestedCitation	no
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Description	The 2006 preliminary dataset on the nutrition survey conducted by Goal Ethiopia using a two-stage cluster sampling approach in Denan woreda of Somali Region among 935 children aged 6-59 months and conducted between January 21 to 26 2006. The dataset captures information on the prevalence of global acute malnutrition or nutritional status, morbidity status, health-seeking condition, child vaccination, and supplementation includes vaccinated against measles, TB, and Vitamin A supplementation, Household Characteristics include the condition of food security, accessibility to water, and community discussion which includes the level of access to health facilities, condition of the pasture, availability of water for livestock, and the condition of livestock. Generally, the objective of the survey was to estimate of the prevalence of acute and chronic malnutrition, examine the current health status of the survey population by considering mortality and morbidity rates and child vitamin A supplementation and vaccination status, and assess the food security situation among children aged 6 to 59 months (or 65-<110cm in height). In addition, this survey assessed the household heads were asked about their characteristics, and the overall food security situation of the Woreda. (livelihood, livestock, Market, Nutrition and EOS activities and safety net program in the woreda).
Dataset study design	Cross-sectional survey
Date Data Archived	2021-07-10
Date Data Cataloged	2021-10-08
Data Generating Unit	GOAL Ethiopia
URL	https://rtds.ephi.gov.et/public/showdetail/315
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