Frequency of relapse for severe acute malnutrition and associated factors among under five children admitted to health facilities in Hadiya Zone, South Ethiopia

Abera Lambebo; Deselegn Temiru; Tefera Belachew

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249232

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Frequency of relapse for severe acute malnutrition and associated factors among under five children admitted to health facilities in Hadiya Zone, South Ethiopia

Abera Lambebo ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: lambebo70@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Medical and Health Science, Collage of Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1580-0364

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Deselegn Temiru,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
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Tefera Belachew

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
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Frequency of relapse for severe acute malnutrition and associated factors among under five children admitted to health facilities in Hadiya Zone, South Ethiopia

Abera Lambebo,
Deselegn Temiru,
Tefera Belachew

Published: March 25, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249232

About the Authors

Abera Lambebo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: lambebo70@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Medical and Health Science, Collage of Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1580-0364

Deselegn Temiru

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

Tefera Belachew

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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