Temesgen Zewotir

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ID1753700
NOMBRETemesgen Zewotir
NOMBRESTemesgen
APELLIDOZewotir
FIRMAZEWOTIR T
AFILIACIONESUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
ORCID0000-0003-1503-8055
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAS2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Prediction of household food insecurity levels in Ethiopia

    Open AccessHabtamu Tilaye Wubetie, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEFood Security2026

    Food insecurity is a frequently occurring country-wide problem caused by shocks with adverse outcomes on health and the economy. The objective is to predict data-driven levels of household food insecurity by considering the effect of space, time, and statistically significant factors. This study analyzed Ethiopian socio-economic household panel data for the years 2012, 2014, and 2016, comprising a sample of 3,835 households. Predictions were made…

  • Estimating the causal effects of multiple treatments of crop commercialization on multidimensional poverty in observational studies

    Open AccessAnteneh Mulugeta Eyasu, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2026

    We assessed the causal impact of different crop commercialization groups (subsistence, semi-commercial, and commercial) on multidimensional poverty among rural households. • Of the rural households surveyed, 8.1% were classified as semi-commercially oriented and 12.4% as commercially oriented. • Rural households in the subsistence group exhibited the highest unadjusted multidimensional poverty rate at 48.4%. • Compared to subsistence-oriented hou…

  • Dynamic copula Bayesian network predictive model for assessing the impact of initiative programs on child undernutrition in Ethiopia, 2009–2016

    Open AccessGetnet Bogale Begashaw, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    The study demonstrates the utility of DCBNs for mapping dynamic, nonlinear associations between social protection and health programs and child undernutrition determinants. The results highlight that strengthening household food security and wealth plays a central role in reducing child undernutrition. Although findings are associational, the transferable dependence map can be re-estimated with contemporary data to guide program targeting, monito…

  • Spatiotemporal models with confounding effects

    Open AccessHaile Mekonnen Fenta, Ding-Geng Chen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Different strategies have been developed to minimize under-five mortality (U5M) in sub-Saharan African (sSA) countries; however, it is still a major health concern for children in the region. Spatiotemporal modeling is important for areal data collected over time. However, when the number of time points and spatial areas is large and the areas are disconnected, fitting the model becomes computationally complex because of the high numb…

  • Identifying confounders and estimating the causal effect of antenatal care on age-specific childhood vaccination

    Open AccessAshagrie Sharew Iyassu, Haile Mekonnen Fenta et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Immunization is an efficient and cost-effective public health program. It averts millions of child deaths per year. It is taken as one of the main interventions that can be used to achieve the third Sustainable Development Goal, which is to end preventable deaths of newborns and under-five children by 2030. The study was done with the aim of identifying appropriate confounder identification methods and examining confounders for the ca…

  • Impact of crop commercialization on multidimensional poverty in rural Ethiopia

    Open AccessAnteneh Mulugeta Eyasu, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Reducing poverty through crop commercialization is one of the antipoverty efforts that helps promote health. This study explored the prevalence and the causal relationship between crop commercialization and rural Ethiopian households' multidimensional poverty using multilevel data. Methods: The study uses data from the most recent nationally representative Ethiopian socioeconomic survey 2018/19 to calculate the rural multidimensiona…

  • Comparisons of cox semi-parametric and parametric shared frailty models

    Open AccessHaile Mekonnen Fenta, Ding-Geng Chen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The exponential shared frailty hazard model with lognormal frailty distribution demonstrated better performance compared to the Cox semiparametric model for identifying risk factors for under-five children across sSA countries. Place of residence, wealth index, media exposure, birth order, birth interval, access to improved water, and use of clean fuels for cooking were the significant risk factors on time to death of under-five children in sSA

  • HIV-related stigma and associated factors

    Open AccessZelalem G Dessie, Temesgen ZewotirARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

  • Dynamic Bayesian network modeling for longitudinal data on child undernutrition in Ethiopia (2002–2016)

    Open AccessGetnet Bogale Begashaw, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: Dynamic Bayesian networks improve the modeling of complex systems by incorporating continuous probabilistic relationships between covariates that change over time. This study aimed to analyze the complex causal links contributing to child undernutrition using dynamic Bayesian network modeling, examining both the best- and worst-case scenarios. The Young Cohort of the Ethiopian Young Lives dataset from 2002-2016 was used to analyze t…

  • Key predictors of food security and nutrition in Africa

    Open AccessAdusei Bofa, Temesgen ZewotirARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    There is voluminous literature on Food Security in Africa. This study explicitly considers the spatio-temporal factors in addition to the usual FAO-based metrics in modeling and understanding the dynamics of food security and nutrition across the African continent. To better understand the complex trajectory and burden of food insecurity and nutrition in Africa, it is crucial to consider space-time factors when modeling and interpreting food secu…

  • Household food insecurity levels in Ethiopia

    Open AccessHabtamu Tilaye Wubetie, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction: Numerous natural and man-made factors have afflicted Ethiopia, and millions of people have experienced food insecurity. The current cut-points of the WFP food consumption score (FCS) have limitations in measuring the food insecurity level of different feeding patterns due to the diversified culture of the society. The aim of this study is to adapt the WFP food security score cut-points corrected for the different feeding cultures of…

  • Impact of ambient air pollution exposure during pregnancy on adverse birth outcomes

    Open AccessAweke A Mitku, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Prenatal exposure to PM 2.5 and SO 2 pollution adversely affected birth outcomes after controlling for other prenatal risk factors. This suggests that local government officials have a responsibility for better control of air pollution and health care providers need to advise pregnant females about the risks of air pollution during pregnancy

  • Space–time dynamics regression models to assess variations of composite index for anthropometric failure across the administrative zones in Ethiopia

    Open AccessHaile Mekonnen Fenta, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The CIAF risk factors are spatially and temporally correlated across 72 administrative zones in Ethiopia. There exist geographical differences in CIAF among the zones, which are influenced by spatial neighborhoods of the zone and temporal lags within the zone. Hence these findings emphasize the need to take the spatial neighborhood and historical/temporal contexts into account when planning CIAF prevention

  • Association of medical male circumcision and sexually transmitted infections in a population-based study using targeted maximum likelihood estimation

    Open AccessLateef Babatunde Amusa, Lateef Amusa et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Using a TMLE approach, we present further evidence of a protective association of MMC against HIV and HSV-2 in this hyper-endemic South African setting. TMLE has the potential to enhance the evidence base for recommendations that embrace the effect of public health interventions on health or disease outcomes

  • Investigating the spatial variation and risk factors of childhood anaemia in four sub-Saharan African countries

    Open AccessDanielle J Roberts, Glenda Matthews et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Anaemia control measures in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda need to account for internal spatial heterogeneity evident in these countries. Efforts in assessing the local district-specific causes of childhood anaemia within each country should be focused on

  • Modelling immune deterioration, immune recovery and state-specific duration of HIV-infected women with viral load adjustment

    Open AccessZelalem G Dessie, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Inclusion of both CD4 cell count based disease progression states and viral load, in the time-homogeneous Markov model, assisted in modeling the complete disease progression of HIV/AIDS. Higher quality of life (QoL) domain scores, good clinical characteristics, stable sexual partner and higher educational level were found to be predictive factors for transition and length of stay in sequential adversity of HIV/AIDS

  • The differential effect of maternal dietary patterns on quantiles of Birthweight

    Open AccessAweke A Mitku, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Both maternal undernutrition and overnutrition of protein rich foods, junk foods, snack and energy foods and vegetable rich foods have shown a substantial varying effects on those infants with birthweights in the lower and upper birthweight quantiles

  • Understanding correlates of child stunting in Ethiopia using generalized linear mixed models

    Open AccessKasahun Takele, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    The study indicated that children from undernourished mothers, who are not breastfeeding, from poor households, households that have no toilet facilities, who are male, older age (between 12 to 59 months), who have illiterate mother and short birth spacing were associated with stunting problems. Therefore, family planning education and policy is required for the country to improve on under-five age stunting problems

  • Risk factors of morbidity among children under age five in Ethiopia

    Open AccessKasahun Takele, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    The study indicated that male children, 0-11 months aged children, 12-23 months aged children, anemic children, husband with a lower education, mothers paid employment, non-breastfed children, regions of Amhara, Afar, Dire Dawa, Benishangul, Gambela, Oromia, SNNPR, Somali and Tigray were significantly associated with higher odds of morbidity in Ethiopia. Therefore, there is a need for children morbidity interventions intended to improve child hea…

  • Structured Additive Quantile Regression for Assessing the Determinants of Childhood Anemia in Rwanda

    Open AccessFaustin Habyarimana, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017

    Childhood anemia is among the most significant health problems faced by public health departments in developing countries. This study aims at assessing the determinants and possible spatial effects associated with childhood anemia in Rwanda. The 2014/2015 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey (RDHS) data was used. The analysis was done using the structured spatial additive quantile regression model. The findings of this study revealed that the chi…

  • Semiparametric Multinomial Ordinal Model to Analyze Spatial Patterns of Child Birth Weight in Nigeria

    Open AccessRasheed A Adeyemi, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2016

    Background : Birth weight is an important health parameter for obstetricians and gynaecologists. It is a good health indicator of a child-bearing mother and a strong predictor of infant morbidity and mortality. Methods : This paper utilizes data on 28,647 children born between 2003-2008 obtained from the 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). For a simple epidemiological convenience, the occurrence of a newborn weight can intuitively …

  • Comparison of under-five mortality for 2000, 2005 and 2011 surveys in Ethiopia

    Open AccessDawit Getnet Ayele, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Based on the study, our findings confirmed that under-five mortality is a serious problem in the country. The analysis displayed that the hazard of under-five mortality has a decreasing pattern in years. The result for regions showed that there was an increase in years for some of the regions. This research work gives necessary information to device improved teaching for family planning and children health care to change the child mortality circu…

  • Spatial Distribution of Determinants of Malnutrition of Children under Five Years in Rwanda

    Open AccessFaustin Habyarimana, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Ecology2016Referencias: 4

    The main objective of this paper was to identify the risk factors of malnutrition among children under five years in Rwanda and produce the maps of prevalence of joint distribution of stunting, underweight and wasting. Each of these anthropometric indicators is categorized as malnourished (z-score -20). The spatial multivariate generalized linear mixed model is used to simultaneously identify the spatial distribution of risk factors of malnutriti…

  • Structured additive regression models with spatial correlation to estimate under-five mortality risk factors in Ethiopia

    Open AccessDawit Getnet Ayele, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    The model enables simultaneous modeling of possible nonlinear effects of covariates, spatial correlation and heterogeneity. Our findings are relevant because the identified risk factors can be used to provide priority areas for intervention activities by the government to combat under-five mortality in Ethiopia

  • Determinants of Poverty of Households in Rwanda

    Open AccessFaustin Habyarimana, Temesgen Zewotir et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Ecology2015Citada por: 2Referencias: 5

    Eradication of poverty is the main objective of most societies and policy makers, but developing a perfect or accurate poverty assessment tool to target poor households, in most cases, is a challenge for applied policy research. In this paper, the principal component analysis was first used to create an asset index for each household and thereafter the quantile regression model was used to identify the determinants of poverty of households in Rwa…