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Standard nutrition survey in Gelana woreda of Borena zone, Oromiya region, 2009

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Id	EPHI-DS0348
Name	Standard nutrition survey in Gelana woreda of Borena zone, Oromiya region, 2009
Format	.CSV
Coverage Location	Zonal
Coverage Sex	Both
Abstract	his survey was conducted in the Oromia region of Gelana woreda in the Borena zone by Goal Ethiopia among selected clusters of household 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 the following. A total of 12.2% of them were classified as global acute malnutrition (GAM), 10.1% as moderate acute malnutrition, and 2.0% of children were severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The Prevalence of acute malnutrition based on MUAC was 1.9% had Severe wasting, 4.9% with moderate wasting, and 12.3 % had Moderate wasting. The crude mortality rate and under-five mortality rates were estimated at 0.19 and 0.24 deaths/10,000/day respectively. About 40 % of the children suffered from diarrhea, 22.9 % from cough, and 23.8 % 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 4.2 %, 18.4 %, and 69.5 % of the respondents respectively.
Additional Material	No
Keywords	Nutrition malnutrition global acute malnutrition acute malnutrition vaccination measles TB survey Gelana woreda Borena zone Oromiya region
Recommended	Yes
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Cleaned	Yes
Cleaned Format	. csdb
RawFormat	. csdb
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Date Data Collection Started	2009-11-26
Date Data Collection End	2009-12-09
Title	Standard nutrition survey in Gelana woreda of Borena zone, Oromiya region, 2009
Data Type	Survey
PublicationYear	2000
SugestedCitation	no
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Description	The 2009 data set on the nutrition survey conducted by Goal Ethiopia using a two-stage cluster sampling approach in Gelana Woreda of Borena of SNNPR region among 839 children aged 6-59 months conducted between 26th, November to 9th December 2009. The data set 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	2021-07-10
Date Data Cataloged	2021-11-06
Data Generating Unit	GOAL Ethiopia
URL	https://rtds.ephi.gov.et/public/showdetail/348
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