Beyene, Hunachew
Deressa, Wakgari
Kumie, Abera
Grace, Delia
Article History
Received: 8 March 2018
Accepted: 24 May 2018
First Online: 4 June 2018
Authors’ information
: HB is a lecturer of Environmental and Public Health at Hawassa University, Ethiopia. WD is the associate professor and dean of the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University. He has been teaching several courses including biostatistics, epidemiology, and research methodology. He has had supervised many masters and doctoral students. He also has more than 60 publications in the national and international journals. AK is an associate professor, head of Environmental Health Unit, and PhD program coordinator at the School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has been teaching environmental health courses for various groups of health science students. He also has supervised several masters and doctoral students. He has more than 60 publications in the peer-reviewed journals. DG is an epidemiologist and veterinarian with nearly 20Â years of experience in developing countries. She is a senior researcher at the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya and program manager of agriculture-associated diseases in the new CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Human Nutrition and Health. She is a prolific and effective author in a wide variety of media, including over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, numerous book chapters, presentations, posters, policy briefs, films, manuals, farmer diagnostic aids, and articles.
: Ethical clearance was granted by the ethical review board of Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences; permission to use the HMIS data was obtained from the SNNPR Health Bureau and Sidama Zone Health department. All the information were kept confidential, and no individual identifiers were collected.
: All information were obtained from secondary data.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.
: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.