page_title: Health in Ethiopia
section_title: Non-communicable disease
hierarchical_section_title: Health in Ethiopia / Non-communicable disease
caption_attribution_description: English: proportional mortality in Ethiopia, 2016
context_page_description: Health in Ethiopia has improved markedly since the early 2000s, with government leadership playing a key role in mobilizing resources and ensuring that they are used effectively. A central feature of the sector is the priority given to the Health Extension Programme, which delivers cost-effective basic services that enhance equity and provide care to millions of women, men and children. The development and delivery of the Health Extension Program, and its lasting success, is an example of how a low-income country can still improve access to health services with creativity and dedication.
context_section_description: Due to major life stay change and urbanisation, in the recent two decades in Ethiopia there is significant epidemiological change. Having the problem of the communicable disease as the major burden, the country is suffering from triple burden of equally significant non-communicable disease burden and emerging Injury problems.
  The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2016 shows that 52% of the mortality and 46% of total disease burden (as measured by Disability-Adjusted Life Years) were attributable to NCDs and injuries in Ethiopia. The 2015/16 National STEPS Survey on NCDs and risk factors showed the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes is 15.6% and 3.2% respectively among the adult population. More than 95% of adults have more than one risk factor for NCDs among the selected 5 major risk factors identified in the survey, namely current daily smoking, BMI>25 kg/m2, low consumption of fruits and vegetables, physical inactivity and raised blood pressure.
  The prevalence of alcohol and Khat consumption is very high (41% & 16% respectively), and average daily salt intake of the population is 8.3 g which is much higher than the WHO recommended intake of less than 5 grams per day.
caption: proportionate mortality in Ethiopia,2016[12]
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