Nigusu Worku

Biographic Data

ID7751264
NAMENigusu Worku
GIVEN NAMESNigusu
FAMILY NAMEWorku
SIGNATUREWORKU N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Gondar
ORCID0000-0001-7262-286X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Socio-economic inequalities in minimum dietary diversity among Ethiopian children aged 6–23 months

    Open AccessNigusu Worku, Amare Mesfin Workie et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Globally, inappropriate feeding practices account for more than two-thirds of all cases of child mortality during the first 2 years of a child's life. For a long time, Ethiopia has suffered from the double burden of malnutrition: overnutrition and undernutrition both pose significant challenges, particularly for children. Undernutrition is mainly caused by wealth and educational disparities across the country. Therefore, this study ai…

  • Job motivation and associated factors among healthcare professionals serving in primary hospitals in the Central Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia

    Open AccessMandefro Tadesse Legesse, Habtamu Wagnew Abuhay et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background Low performance in health facilities is associated mostly with poor healthcare worker motivation in the workplace, and this burden is dominant in developing countries such as Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to assess job motivation and associated factors among healthcare professionals in Central Gondar Zone primary hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia. Methods An institutionally based cross-sectional study with a qualitative component…

  • Incomplete basic vaccination and associated factors among children aged 12–23 months in resource-limited countries

    Open AccessMihret Getnet, Melak Jejaw et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background Childhood basic vaccinations are a cost-effective and essential preventive health strategy globally in resource-limited nations. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aim to reach these ambitious targets, making it crucial to identify underserved populations and address the barriers they face in accessing life-saving immunizations. To date, no spatial analyses have been performed to identify areas of hotspots of incomplete b…

  • Practice of balanced scorecard implementation and its contributing factors among public primary hospital professionals in Central Gondar zone, Northwest Ethiopia

    Open AccessSeid Yeshaw, Geta Asrade et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background Globally, a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is used to measure healthcare institutional performance. Thus, since 2010, Ethiopia has adopted and implemented BSC in all its civil service organizations. Ineffective implementation of this tool has a significant impact on the healthcare performance. The health sector’s healthcare provision, customer satisfaction, customer retention, organizational profit, changes and improvements in the healthcare…

  • Process Evaluation of Community-Based Newborn Care Program in Tach Armachiho District, Central Gondar Zone, Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia

    Open AccessAdina Yeshambel Belay, Geta Asrade Alemayehu et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2025

    The Community-Based Newborn Care program is a community level newborn care package within Ethiopia’s maternal and newborn health continuum. This evaluation assesses the process of the Community-Based Newborn Care program in Tach Armachiho district, Northwest Ethiopia. A community-based case study with mixed approaches was used to assess the community-based newborn care program. A total of 33 indicators related to acceptability, compliance, and av…

  • Estimated effect of media use on mothers’ vaccination of their children in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessMelak Jejaw, Kaleb Assegid Demissie et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This study finding highlighted that policymakers and planners in SSA countries should give great emphasis to further enhancing media exposure coverage for target groups since it has a substantial impact on improving childhood vaccination uptake. Further research is recommended to examine the cause-effect relationship of media exposure on childhood vaccination by including more proximal variables that were not observed in the present study

  • Rural–urban disparity in community-based health insurance enrollment in Ethiopia

    Open AccessYawkal Tsega, Hiwot Tadesse Alemu et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background In sub-Saharan Africa, achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and protecting populations from health-related financial hardship remain challenging goals. Subsequently, community-based health insurance (CBHI) has gained interest in low and middle-income countries, such as Ethiopia. However, the rural–urban disparity in CBHI enrollment has not been properly investigated using multivariate decomposition analysis. Therefore, this study …

  • Measuring socioeconomic inequalities in postnatal health checks for newborns in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAsebe Hagos, Misganaw Guadie Tiruneh et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: Addressing health inequity is a top priority for achieving sustainable development goals. The existing evidences in Ethiopia have shown that there are substantial inequalities in the use of health services among various socioeconomic strata. Therefore, the present study aimed to measure socioeconomic inequalities and the contributing factors in postnatal health checks for newborns in Ethiopia. Methods: We used a secondary data from th…