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Preliminary report of base line nutrition survey East Belesa Woreda, North Gonder Zone, Amhara region, 2010

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Id	EPHI-DS0389
Name	Preliminary report of base line nutrition survey East Belesa Woreda, North Gonder Zone, Amhara region, 2010
Format	. SAV
Coverage Location	Zonal
Coverage Sex	Both
Abstract	This survey was conducted by Goal Ethiopia in the Amhara regional state of East Belesa woredas in the North Gonder zone. It was conducted 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 issues. The prevalence of acute malnutrition based on weight-for-height z-scores was 16.7 % of them were classified as global acute malnutrition (GAM), 15.3 % of them were moderate and 1.3 % of children were severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The crude mortality rate and the under-five children mortality were 0.19 and 0.44 deaths per death/10,000/day; About 36.9 % of the children suffered from diarrhea, 21.3 % from cough (ARI), and 24.6 % 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 12.5 %, 47.9 %, and 82.4 % of the respondents, respectively.
Additional Material	No
Keywords	Nutrition malnutrition global acute malnutrition acute malnutrition vaccination measles BCG survey East Belesa woreda west North Gonder zone
Recommended	Yes
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Cleaned	Yes
Cleaned Format	. csdb
RawFormat	. csdb
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Date Data Collection Started	2010-04-20
Date Data Collection End	2010-05-04
Title	Preliminary report of base line nutrition survey East Belesa Woreda of North Gonder Zone, Amhara region, 2010
Data Type	Survey
PublicationYear	2000
SugestedCitation	no
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Description	This dataset on preliminary nutrition survey in East Belesa Woreda of North Gonder Zone of Amhara region was conducted by Goal Ethiopia using a two-stage cluster sampling approach among 598 children and 798 households from April 20th to May 4th, 2010. 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 dataset also incorporated the households' 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	2022-04-30
Data Generating Unit	GOAL Ethiopia
URL	https://rtds.ephi.gov.et/public/showdetail/389
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