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Modeling the Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) for Covid-19

July 19, 2021NDMC Evidence Briefs

COVID 19 remains a national and global concern, where prevention through implementation of NPIs are the best ways to combat the pandemic until vaccine is accessible to the public.
In Ethiopia implementation of NPI has shown variation overtime depending on the level of threat the pandemic has to the health and socio-economy of the people.
Scenario based Mathematical model has been used in this evidence brief to capture the impact of Face Mask (FM) & Social Distancing (SD) on COVID 19 infections, hospitalization, ICU requirement and death.
The scenarios implemented in this brief are made to reflect the ground reality focusing on current implemented and/or proposed national NPI policies.

Modeling the Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) for Covid-19

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A REPORT COVID 19 PROJECTION (A Case on Non-pharmaceutical and Vaccine Interventions)

July 17, 2021NDMC Blog

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a global pandemic during March 11, 2020. By June 11, 2021, there were 174.4Million confirmed cases across the globe. In Ethiopia, on June 11, 2021, there were 273,678 total number of confirmed cases, and there were 4,231 total reported deaths. This evidence shows that the pandemic is still a national and global threat. Preventing and controlling the spread of COVDI 19, reducing disease severity and mortality require strict implementation of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) and vaccination until proven treatment is made available.

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Which investment on interventions against COVID-19 pandemic is worth its cost?

July 17, 2021NDMC Evidence Briefs

Various public health measures have been taken by governments and health authorities to prevent
and control pandemics across time. The benefit of investing in any health condition should outweigh
the costs of not investing in it. The objective of this evidence brief to review studies conducted on
economic evaluation of public health measures against COVID-19 and influenza pandemics published
from 1998-2020 to provide an input for policy recommendation for Ethiopia.

Which investment on interventions against COVID-19 pandemic is worth its cost?

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Premature Mortality in Ethiopia and in the regions from 1990-2019

July 17, 2021NDMC Evidence Briefs

Ethiopia is implementing Health Sector Transformation Plan since 2015 to support the implementation of universal health coverage and to attain Sustainable Development Goals.
Evidence on premature mortality from any cause is an important indicator to see disparities in availability and accessibility to health care as well as health resource allocation across the regions, yet these evidences are often lacking.
The main purpose of this evidence brief is to show the burden and trends of death and premature mortality rate in Ethiopia and its regions from EPHI and IHME collaborative Global Burden of Disease (GBD 2019) national and regional analysis using all available data sources.

Premature Mortality in Ethiopia and in the regions from 1990-2019

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Evaluating national health expenditure with disease burden

July 17, 2021NDMC Evidence Briefs

Triangulating health expenditure with disease burden estimates will give insight whether national health system resources have been spent in line with disease burden priority of the country.
The purpose of this evidence brief is to evaluate the alignment of Ethiopia’s health expenditure (NHA 2013/14 and 2016/17) with the burden of disease estimates to inform resource mobilization strategies of the health care system in cognizant with epidemiologic transitions in Ethiopia.
National Health Account (NHA) and Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD 2019) were mapped in this brief by reclassifying NHA diseases categories to the broader GBD categories; communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional disorders (CMNN), non-communicable disease (NCDs), and injuries.

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How Should Ethiopia’s Government Respond to COVID – 19 in a Cost Effective Way?

July 17, 2021NDMC Blog

To support government decision-making to address the COVID-19 outbreak, the National Data Management Center (NDMC) of the Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI) conducted a systematic review of the economic evaluations of public health measures for the prevention and control of pandemics. The study explored literature published between the years 1998-2020 on pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions including stockpiling drugs and vaccines, treatment with antivirals, prophylaxis, vaccination, testing, tracking exposed persons, personal protective, school closure, equipment, quarantines, and border closure.

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NDMC to Offer Training on Data Science

July 4, 2021NDMC Front Page News

The National Data Management Center for Health, under the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, has made a big step to give training on data science. Since last Thursday, a group of experts have camped at Hawassa to finalize the preparation of training modules on the basics of data science and to lay a foundation for the inception of developing training on advanced data science Meanwhile, EPHI’s training center has been the baron in assisting, coordinating and reviewing preparation of the manual.

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NDMC Approves Its Forthcoming Plan amid Prospects

June 28, 2021NDMC Front Page News

The national data management centre for health (NDMC) has worked on setting its plans for the coming Ethiopian budget year on the 18^th of June E.C. Making its core teams the major focus of the planning, the centre has made scrutiny on whether or not the plans made by teams are specific, measurable, achievable, and timely. Granted that some plans are extensions of the existing year’s plan, the centre has also set strategies to work on new plans which are presumed to go in-line with EPHI’s plans.

On the other hand, aiming to achieve a common goal, the four case teams of the centre have made their plans align together. Plan alignment, as explained by leads of case teams, is going to help the teams avoid duplication of tasks, and makes them help one another in conducting tasks with different expertise. Moreover, the plan alignment has been extended to sharing activities with other directorates of EPHI, the Ministry of Health, Regional Health Bureaus, and Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites of Ethiopia. Finally, after passing through these discussion points, the plan has been endorsed to be submitted to the planning office of EPHI.

The discussion was chaired by Dr. Alemnesh Hailemariam (Coordinator of NDMC), and the participants were Dr. Awoke Misganaw (Advisor of NDMC), Mr. Melaku Temeselew (Project Coordinator of NDMC), Dr. Asnake Worku (Lead of Data Repository and Governance Team), Mr. Wondesen Teklemariam (Lead of Burden of Disease Team), Mr. Amanuel Lulu (Lead of Evidence Synthesis and Translation Team), and Mr. Latera Tesfaye (Lead of Data Analytics and Visualization Team).

How Should Ethiopia’s Government Respond to COVID – 19 in a Cost Effective Way?

June 14, 2021NDMC Front Page News

COVID-19’s Fatal Upshot – the Death of Mothers and Children

June 14, 2021NDMC Front Page News

The national data management center for health (NDMC), under the Ethiopian public health institute, has conducted a study on the indirect impact of COVID-19 on maternal, neonatal and child mortality. Broadly speaking, the study has estimated and shown the occurrence of the pandemic as it will bring an unprecedented death on children and mothers due to poor service utilization at health center.

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