Habtamu Tamene Temesgen

Biographic Data

ID7799662
NAMEHabtamu Tamene Temesgen
GIVEN NAMESHabtamu Tamene
FAMILY NAMETemesgen
SIGNATURETEMESGEN H T
AFFILIATIONSJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0009-0004-3681-8338
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Introducing and testing the maternal vulnerability segmentation tool (MVST) for essential health services use

    Open AccessYihunie Lakew, Habtamu Tamene Temesgen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    Ethiopia has made substantial progress in improving maternal health outcomes; however, significant disparities remain among populations whose individual, interpersonal, community and cultural factors place them at greater risk, as compared with those with better access to resources and healthcare facilities. Addressing these disparities requires initiating advanced and targeted segmentation tools to effectively identify and reach vulnerable group…

  • Improving Maternal Health Service Use Among Underserved Pregnant Women

    Open AccessBee-Ah Kang, R N Rimal et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2026

    The World Health Organization recommends that pregnant women attend antenatal care (ANC) regularly throughout pregnancy and deliver in a health facility. While prior interventions have sought to address social barriers to maternal health service utilization, the specific social mechanisms through which these interventions exert influence remain unclear. This study examined changes in key social factors following the intervention and their associa…

  • Modern contraceptive methods use behaviour among young married women in Urban Ethiopia

    Open AccessTsion Habtu Tebeje, Habtamu Tamene Temesgen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The study shows higher levels of contraceptive use among young married women in urban Ethiopia. Increasing radio listenership and improving contraceptive knowledge further enhance their contraceptive use behavior

  • Psychosocial factors associated with malaria care-seeking in rural Ethiopia

    Open AccessBolanle Olapeju, Habtamu Tamene et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Among this rural Ethiopian population, prompt care-seeking was low but positively influenced by both ideational and contextual psychosocial factors occurring at the caregiver level. Multi-sectoral interventions at the individual, community, and health facility levels are needed to improve prompt care-seeking. These include social behavior change interventions to improve ideation, complemented by health facility interventions to ensure provision o…

  • HIV related risk behaviours among taxi drivers and their assistants in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Open AccessYihunie Lakew, Habtamu Tamene et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Risky sexual behaviours in this sub-population were considerable and associated factors were found to be multidimensional. Therefore, there is a need for robust intervention strategies such as tailored serial radio program targeting taxi drivers and their assistants