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Final report on nutrition & mortality Survey in Sekota Woreda of Waghemra Zone, Amhara region, 2012

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Id	EPHI-DS0336
Name	Final report on nutrition & mortality Survey in Sekota Woreda of Waghemra Zone, Amhara region, 2012
Format	.CSV
Coverage Location	Zonal
Coverage Sex	Both
Abstract	This survey was conducted in the Amhara region Sekota woreda of Waghemra zone by Goal Ethiopia among selected clusters of household children aged of 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 the following findings. A total of 12.1 % of them were classified as global acute malnutrition (GAM), 11.3 as moderate acute malnutrition, and 0.8 % of children were severe acute malnutrition (SAM). About 58.1% of the children suffered from diarrhea, 72.9 % from cough, and 12.5 % from fever. The percentage of children vaccinated against measles by card, TB (BCG) by scar, and who received vitamin A in the last 6 months were 4.7 %, 29.1 %, and 85.7 of the respondents, respectively.
Additional Material	No
Keywords	Nutrition malnutrition acute malnutrition vaccination measles TB water survey preliminary report Sekota Woreda Waghemra zone Amhara region
Recommended	Yes
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Cleaned	Yes
Cleaned Format	. csdb
RawFormat	. csdb
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Date Data Collection Started	2012-03-29
Date Data Collection End	2012-04-13
Title	Final report on nutrition & mortality Survey in Sekota Woreda of Waghemra Zone, Amhara region, 2012
Data Type	Survey
PublicationYear	2000
SugestedCitation	no
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Description	The 2012 preliminary dataset on the nutrition survey was conducted by Goal Ethiopia using a two-stage cluster sampling approach in Sekota Woreda of Waghemra Zone of Amhara region among 528 children aged 6-59 months conducted between March 29 to April 13, 2012. The dataset captures information on the prevalence of global acute malnutrition or nutritional status by measuring MUAC, morbidity status, health-seeking condition, child vaccination, and supplementation includes vaccinated against measles, BCG (TB), Vitamin A supplementation, household characteristics including 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 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). The data set also incorporated the household’s main livelihood, community discussion regarding health facility time, and water availability for livestock.
Dataset study design	Cross-sectional survey
Date Data Archived	2021-07-09
Date Data Cataloged	2021-10-22
Data Generating Unit	GOAL Ethiopia
URL	https://rtds.ephi.gov.et/public/showdetail/336
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