Maternal and child characteristics and health practices affecting under-five mortality: A matched case control study in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Girma Temam Shifa; Ahmed Ali Ahmed; Alemayehu Worku Yalew

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202124

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Maternal and child characteristics and health practices affecting under-five mortality: A matched case control study in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Girma Temam Shifa ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: girmatemam2@yahoo.com

Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-7040

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Ahmed Ali Ahmed,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Alemayehu Worku Yalew

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Maternal and child characteristics and health practices affecting under-five mortality: A matched case control study in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Girma Temam Shifa,
Ahmed Ali Ahmed,
Alemayehu Worku Yalew

Published: August 15, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202124

About the Authors

Girma Temam Shifa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: girmatemam2@yahoo.com

Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-7040

Ahmed Ali Ahmed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Alemayehu Worku Yalew

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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