Children with inadequate or no parental care are at risk of being denied a caring and protective environment. The State has the main responsibility to ensure that appropriate legislative, political and financial measures are undertaken in order to provide adequate alternative care options “with priority to familyand communitybased solutions”. According to the particular needs of individual chil...

C onsensus is growing that sustainable improvements in the health of the communities are achievable only through a systematic process of community involvement, organization, and participation. Although the notion of local involvement has been fundamental to communitybased public health, more recent recommendations seek to raise the community’s role to the lead partner in a collaboration of publ...

Dear Editor, The profession of physiotherapy gained recognition during the time of World War I,1 with services being rendered in acute-care as well as community settings. It can thus be inferred that physiotherapy services in and for the community could have begun as early as 1914. Since then, there has been ample research globally (developed world more than the developing) on this specializati...

The disintegration of joint family system has made the family units smaller and the rate of marriage breakdown has increased. In the same period, with the technological advance in medicine, the survival of children with disabilities has risen. It has been estimated that about 10 per cent of children experience developmental disorders requiring access to the health care system and extensive care...

The articles elsewhere in this issue describe the large evidence base of effective treatments for the mental health problems commonly experienced by older adults. However, despite the availability of pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions with demonstrated efficacy in geriatric patients, mental illness remains undertreated in older adults [1]. As many as one half of older adults with...

Malaria in Ethiopia is one of the leading causes of death (21.8 percent), consultation in outpatient departments (17.8 percent) and hospital admissions (14.1 percent) (2;14). To overcome this problem, the Malaria Control Program (Federal Ministry of Health) has designed a communitybased malaria treatment approach that played key roles in malaria epidemic control and community mobilization as we...

introduction: the media is so important in today’s life which addressing the issue of health without considering the role of the media is impossible. hence understanding the factors related to the use of the media medical programs by the audience, considering the communication capacity and establishing a scientific basis for the use of the media can help the health organizations to be more effe...