Open AccessCOVID-19 Prevention Practices Among Prisoners, in Southern Ethiopia
Author(s) -
Nana Chea Hankalo,
Akalewold Alemayehu,
Rekiku Fikre,
Edilu Shona
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s350257
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , prison , family medicine , logistic regression , declaration , case fatality rate , environmental health , descriptive statistics , public health , disease , covid-19 , psychology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , nursing , population , pathology , criminology , law , statistics , mathematics , political science
Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious disease with high attack and case fatality rate. Since WHO's declaration of disease as pandemic in March 2020, the unprecedented global crises have been happening. To curb and reduce such crises, multi-dimensional international efforts have been made, particularly, infection prevention measures has been developed. However, there was a wide gap of implementing COVID-19 prevention measures from rural to urban, from institution to institution and from person to person. Therefore, the aim of this study was to measure the level of prevention practice towards COVID 19 and associated factors in prison, in Sidama National Regional State, Ethiopia.