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Wondwosen Kassahun

Researcher at Jimma University

Publications -  14
Citations -  481

Wondwosen Kassahun is an academic researcher from Jimma University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Count data & Overdispersion. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 14 publications receiving 383 citations. Previous affiliations of Wondwosen Kassahun include National Institutes of Health & University of Hasselt.

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Risk factors of diarrhoeal disease in under-five children among health extension model and non-model families in Sheko district rural community, Southwest Ethiopia: comparative cross-sectional study

TL;DR: The level of diarrheal disease variation was well explained by maternal education, income, personal hygiene, waste disposal system and the effect of health extension programme.
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Family Planning Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among Married Couples in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia

TL;DR: The study demonstrates that mere physical access to clinics for family planning and awareness of contraceptives are not sufficient to ensure that contraceptive needs are met and projects aiming at increasing contraceptive use should contemplate and establish better counseling about contraceptive side effects and method switch.
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Delay in initiating tuberculosis treatment and factors associated among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in East Wollega, Western Ethiopia

TL;DR: A greater proportion of the overall total delay was contributed by health system delay, and the health system should be more accessible to those in greatest need for the unmet need.
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Determinants of inter birth interval among married women living in rural pastoral communities of southern Ethiopia: a case control study

TL;DR: Assessment of the determinants of inter birth interval among women’s of child bearing age in Yaballo Woreda, Borena zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia found that modern contraceptive use, women education, and breastfeeding should be made.
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Intervention pathways towards improving the resilience of pastoralists: A study from Borana communities, southern Ethiopia

TL;DR: In this paper, the statistical relationships among the resilience dimensions that emerged through community consultations, and to identify the intervention pathways for effective resilience building efforts were tested, and principal component analyses were done to develop composite scores of the different resilience dimensions.