About the Authors

Ayechew Ademas

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayechew Ademas, Metadel Adane

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

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

Metadel Adane

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayechew Ademas, Metadel Adane

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

metadel.adane2@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

Tadesse Sisay

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

Helmut Kloos

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Betelhiem Eneyew

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

Awoke Keleb

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

Mistir Lingerew

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

Atimen Derso

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

Kassahun Alemu

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.