Juniper Publishers Journal of Reproductive Medicine

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine    Juniper Publishers Authored by: Mitiku Getachew Kumara* Background Introduction Obstetric needs are health problems that necessitate EmOC services or interventions. The sum of incidence of pathologies (obstetric emergencies and complications) is taken as an indicator of obstetric need. During the 1990s the international community has made a major effort to better document the magnitude of maternal health problems, and particularly maternal mortality. To measure the extent of this staggering human tragedy, and the failure of many health systems to meet the most basic needs for health care of the women in their constituencies, widespread use was made of maternal mortality ratios (MMR). Although this was pivotal in mobilizing policy makers it was clearly not enough to understand what works, what works not and what should be done. The ‘First Safe Motherhood Decade’ also saw a number of initiatives that tried to go beyond do...

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine    Juniper Publishers Authored  by:  Duygu Kavuncuoglu* Introduction In the twenty-first century; there have been many developments in medicine such as finding new diagnostic and treatment methods; demographic and epidemiological transformation; changing disease burdens and increasing the burden of non-communicable diseases; increasing the importance of gaining healthy lifestyle behaviors to individuals and preventive health services rather than therapeutic health services. In addition; advances in communication technology have increased the resources for people to obtain health information and access to information has become easier. As a result of the developments both in the field of medicine and technology; the health care providers and the areas where the service is provided have increased as well as the share of health care providers-demanders in the process of making medical decisions-in the management of ...

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine    Juniper Publishers Authored by:  Zekarias Mengistu* Introduction The total cattle population for the rural sedentary areas of Ethiopia is estimated to be 43.12million, of which 55.41% are females. Out of the total female cattle population, only 151,344 (0.35%) and 19,263 (0.04%) heads are hybrid and exotic breeds, respectively. With an average lactation length of 6 months and an average daily milk production of 1.44 liters per cow, the total milk produced during the year 2006/07 was recorded to be 2.634 billion liters. This suggests that the total number of both exotic and hybrid female cattle produced through the crossbreeding work for many decades in the country is quite insignificant indicating unsuccessful crossbreeding work. This again suggests that Ethiopia needs to work hard on improving the work of productive and reproductive performance improvements of cattle through appropriate breeding and related activiti...