Getasew Amare Muche

University of Gondar | UOG · Department of Health Systems and policy

Introduction Collaboration is gaining prominence in the priority setting of Health Policy And System Research (HPSR). However, its practice and challenges are not well explored in Ethiopia. Understanding the practice and barriers of collaborative Health Policy and System Research will help design approaches and platforms for setting inclusive and p...

Background The government of Ethiopia has designed different initiatives for the Health Information Systems (HIS), including an information revolution transformation agenda by 2015. Various interventions and working documents have also been developed and implemented targeting the different aspects of the HIS program. However, there is no nationally...

Background: The Capacity Building and Mentorship Program (CBMP) is a collaborative initiative of the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia (FMOH) and selected Universities to enhance the Information Revolution Agenda. Recently, the FMOH declared that some CBMP implementations woredas are models. Therefore, assessing the best practices and lessons...

Background: Evidence showed that incentive motivates health workers and improves health-related data quality and use. However, proven interventions, including incentives, may not always improve data quality and use due to context differences. In this regard, how performance-based non-financial incentive (PBNI) improves health-related data quality a...

Background: Evidence shows that recognizing the best performers in organizations can motivate workers to make other remarkable achievements. However, there was scant information regarding the barriers and facilitators of implementing performance-based non-financial incentives (PBNI) to improve health data quality and information use by district hea...

Introduction: Several behavioral and moral factors influence health information use and practice, including healthcare motivation. A performance-based non-financial incentive (PBNI) intervention was developed to improve the quality of data and information use practices in the Wogera district. Objectives: This research aimed to assess the cost-effec...

Introduction: Several internal and external factors in the health system pose challenges to the quality and use of health data. One of the behavioral and moral variables that can impact data quality and information use practices is the motivation of the health workforce. A performance-based non-financial incentive intervention was put into place in...

Background: Quality health data production is vital for effective evidence-based decision-making in the health-care industry. Several factors challenge using complete and timely health data in practice. This study evaluated how the Performance-Based None-financial Intervention (PBNI) intervention was reached, effective, adapted, implemented as per...

Background Human resource is one of the health system’s building blocks, which ultimately leads to improved health status, equity, and efficiency. However, human resources in the health sector are characterized by high attrition, distributional imbalance, and geographic inequalities in urban and rural settings. Methods An discrete choice experimen...

Background Maternity waiting home (MWH) is one of the strategies designed for improved access to comprehensive obstetric care for pregnant women living far from health facilities. Hence, it is vital to promote MWHs for pregnant women in Ethiopia, where most people reside in rural settings and have a high mortality rate. Therefore, this study aimed...

Background: Early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF) is a costless practice with numerous neonates' survival benefits. Thus, any disparity results in an unacceptably high neonatal death rate but socioeconomic disparities on EIBF have not been well explored in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study is aimed at assessing the socioeconomic inequalities of E...

Introduction Mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT), or vertical transmission of HIV, is one mode of HIV transmission from mother to baby during pregnancy, delivery and after childbirth. The continuation of new pediatric HIV infection due to the improper prevention of MTCT is a challenge in developing countries; however, the program is not evaluat...

Introduction: Even if immunization coverage increases over time, it is imperative to ascertain the safety and efficient coverage of immunization services. However, evidence on the safety practices of vaccines is limited. Assessing the implementation status of vaccine safety practices and its implementation barriers is crucial for program monitoring...

Background Around $3.5 trillion globally and up to $2.78 billion in Ethiopia, losses are reported annually due to malnutrition. Even if in Ethiopia nutrition services are delivered free of charge, specific public health programs may start to charge users of services that include maternal and child health services. Therefore, this study was aimed to...

Purpose Clinical outcomes have failed to capture the impact of tuberculosis (TB) on patients; consequently, a comprehensive measure is required. This study’s objective was to determine the level of quality of life (QOL) and associated factors among patients with TB at the University of Gondar comprehensive specialized hospital, TB clinic. Methods...

IntroductionIn Ethiopia, cataract surgery is mainly provided by donors free of charge through outreach programs. Assessing willingness to pay for patients for cataract surgery will help explain how the service is valued by the beneficiaries and design a domestic source of finance to sustain a program. Although knowledge concerning willingness to pa...

Background: Globally, about 1.3 billion people lack access to effective and affordable healthcare and 150 million people in 44 million households face financial catastrophe. Health insurance schemes are an effective financing mechanism to help people who are unable to use healthcare services. However, the government employee's Willingness to Pay (...

Background: Health service utilization among out-of-pocket payers and fee-wavier users and factors associated with it in Saesie Tsaeda-Emba District, Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia. Methods: A comparative community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Northern Ethiopia. Households with at least one person who experienced illness during th...

Background: Knowing how heart failure affects patients' quality of life and its associated factors are crucial for a better patient-centred approach and management. Therefore, this study aims to assess health-related quality of life and its associated factors among adult heart failure patients in southern Ethiopia hospitals. Methods: The facilit...

Objective: The main aim of this study was to assess the demand of governmental employees for social health insurance and associated factors in Takusa district, Northwest Ethiopia. Methods: Institution-based cross-sectional triangulated with the phenomenological study was conducted. A simple random and a purposive sampling technique were used to rec...

Introduction: Ethiopian health expenditure as a share of total government expenditure increased from 7.6% in 2013/14 to 8.1% in 2016/17. But it remained low even for the low-income country average expected share of 8.7%. It signifies the efficient use of scarce resources in the health sector is still critical to achieving sustainable development go...

Background. Childhood vaccination continues to increase dramatically. In spite of the success of immunization programs to date, millions of children continued to die each year, and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounted for the world’s highest neonatal deaths. Childhood vaccination was designed as one of the most effective ways to reduce child mortalit...

Background: Although World Health Organization works to make vaccination service available to everyone everywhere by 2030, majority of the world's children have been unvaccinated and unprotected from vaccine-preventable diseases. In fact, evidences on factors contributing to changes in vaccination coverage across residential areas, wealth categori...