Haftom Temesgen Abebe

Biographic Data

ID5427300
NAMEHaftom Temesgen Abebe
GIVEN NAMESHaftom Temesgen
FAMILY NAMEAbebe
SIGNATUREABEBE H T
AFFILIATIONSMekelle University
ORCID0000-0001-6769-210X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • War-related sexual and gender-based violence in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

    Open AccessGirmatsion Fisseha, Tesfay Gebregzabher Gebrehiwot et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) during armed conflicts has serious ramifications with women and girls disproportionally affected. The impact of the conflict that erupted in November 2020 in Tigray on SGBV is not well documented. This study is aimed at assessing war-related SGBV in war-affected Tigray, Ethiopia. METHODS: A community-based survey was conducted in 52 (out of 84) districts of Tigray, excluding its western zone a…

  • Trends and causes of neonatal mortality from 2010 to 2017 at a Health and Demographic Surveillance site in Northern Ethiopia

    Open AccessMengistu Welday Gebremichael, Mache Tsadik et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    BACKGROUND: Half of global under-five mortalities is neonatal. The highest rates are found in low-income countries such as Ethiopia. Ethiopia has made progress in reducing under-five mortality, but neonatal mortality remains high. Evidence collected continuously at the community level is crucial for understanding the trends and causes of neonatal mortality. OBJECTIVES: To analyse the trends and causes of neonatal mortality at the Kilte-Awlelo Hea…

  • Armed conflict and household food insecurity

    Open AccessAregawi Weldegebreal Weldegiargis, Haftom Temesgen Abebe et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2023

    Household food insecurity levels and household hunger status of the study communities was unacceptably high. The armed conflict has significant negative effect on food security in Tigray. It is recommended that the study communities need to be protected from the immediate and long-term consequences of conflict-induced household food insecurity

  • Cultural Effects on Sorghum Varieties Grown, Traits Preferred, and Seed Management Practices in Northern Ethiopia

    Open AccessTsedal Asres Wendmu, Aida Cuni-Sanchez et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2022Cited by: 2References: 36

    Cultural Effects on Sorghum Varieties Grown, Traits Preferred, and Seed Management Practices in Northern Ethiopia. Agrobiodiversity is fundamentally shaped by farmers’ preferences and management practices, and these are again shaped by the farmers’ social and cultural background. This study investigates variety preferences and seed management practices in the crop sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) among the Kunama and the Tigrayan ethnolinguistic group…

  • Reasons and multilevel factors associated with unscheduled contraceptive use discontinuation in Ethiopia

    Open AccessKibrom Taame Weldemariam, Kebede Embaye Gezae et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Method related problems were found to contribute for more than half of the contraceptive use discontinuation. Both individual and community level factors were found to significantly influence the Unscheduled contraceptive use discontinuation. The outcome was common in groups who could have more social interactions and knowledge on which myths and rumors are common. So strengthening the efforts to reduce contraceptive use discontinuation and quali…

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017

    Open AccessDaniel Dicker, Grant Nguyen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part of previous iterations of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD). Previous iterations of the GBD used population estimates from UNPOP, which were not derived in a way that was internally consistent wit…

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017

    Open AccessGregory A Roth, D Abate et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 estimated global, regional, national, and, for selected locations, subnational cause-specific mortality beginning in the year 1980. Here we report an update to that study, making use of newly available data and improved methods. GBD …