conclusions overall, cancer incidence rates had increased in both sexes. many factors were responsible, such as changes in lifestyle, environmental factors, increased life expectancy, improvements in the registration systems, and declining mortality rates due to early detection and treatment. the results of this study provided useful information for the prediction of changes in the incidence an...

BACKGROUND The risk of a child dying before reaching five years of age is highest in Sub-Saharan African countries. But Child mortality rates have shown substantial decline in Ethiopia. It is important to identify factors affecting under-five mortality. METHODS A structured additive logistic regression model which accounts the spatial correlation was adopted to estimate under-five mortality r...

BACKGROUND Since its founding in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) has become the dominant multilateral health financier in low- and middle-income countries. The health impact of the Global Fund remains unknown because existing evaluations measure intermediate outcomes or do not account for preexisting and counterfactual trends. METHODS We conducted ...