Pneumonia remains a leading public health problem among under-five children in peri-urban areas of north-eastern Ethiopia

• Awoke Keleb ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Awoke Keleb, 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

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

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• Tadesse Sisay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

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

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• Kassahun Alemu,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

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

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• Ayechew Ademas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

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

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• Mistir Lingerew,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

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

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• Helmut Kloos,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Tefera Chane Mekonnen,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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• Atimen Derso,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

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

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• Metadel Adane

  Contributed equally to this work with: Awoke Keleb, 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

  * E-mail: metadel.adane2@gmail.com

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7039-4768

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