Prevalence and risk factors of acute lower respiratory infection among children living in biomass fuel using households: A community-based cross-sectional study in Northwest Ethiopia
Abstract:income countries (LMICs) (1) across all ages and sexes (2). Lower respiratory infections caused 652, 572 deaths in children younger than 5 years worldwide in 2016 (3). Particularly, acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in the form of pneumonia is recognized as the single largest cause of childhood death globally accounting for 16% of the overall deaths in 2015 (4).In Ethiopia, lower respiratory infections were the leading cause of premature mortality across all ages in the year 2015 (5) and pneumonia, in p… Show more
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