<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157624"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Sub-theme 2.1. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Aim</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">The main aim of this sub-theme is to undertake research on health promotion and disease prevention including studies on safe water supply and waste management, control of communicable diseases, housing, and occupational health and safe working condition.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Description</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">This sub-theme focuses on studies related to identification, development, and provision of safe water supply; management of human and animal wastes; prevention and control of communicable diseases with particular focus on malaria, tuberculosis, diarrheal diseases, water and airborne diseases, diseases that are transmitted by vectors and animals; proper housing, illumination, ventilation and diseases associated with improper housing; and occupational health and hygienic practices as well as safe working condition. The theme also deals with finding ways of protecting workers from potentially hazardous poisonous chemicals and toxic substances.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157625"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Research Areas</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157626"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>2.1.1. Safe water supply and effective waste management</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157627"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>2.1.2. Prevention and control of communicable diseases</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157628"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>2.1.3. Prevention and control of zoonotic diseases</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157629"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>2.1.4. Occupational health, safety and risk management</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157630"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>2.1.5. Housing/health problems in residential and institutional environment</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157631"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>2.1.6. Physical fitness and exercises</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157632"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><u> </u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sub-theme-2.1-description.pdf"><u>For the details, click here</u></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-Sub-theme-2.1-Priority-research-areas.pdf"><u>Research priorities 2017</u></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/10/2016-Sub-theme-2.1-Priority-research-areas.pdf"><u>Research priorities 2016</u></a></span></p>
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