• Utilisation of growth monitoring and promotion services and associated factors among mothers of children younger than 2 years in Gondar Zuria District, Northwest Ethiopia: A community-based, cross-sectional study 

  Aysheshim Kassahun Belew; Netsanet Worku; Kassahun Alemu Gelaye; Kedir Abdela Gonete; Melkamu Tamir Hunegnaw; Esmael Ali Muhammad; Tigist Astale; Getnet Mitike; Zegeye Abebe (BMJ, 2024-02-08)

  Objective The study aimed to assess the utilisation of growth monitoring and promotion services and the associated factors among mothers of children under 2 years old in Gondar Zuria District, northwest Ethiopia.
• Beyond Astana: Configuring the World Health Organization Collaborating Centres for Primary Health Care 

  Resham B. Khatri; Peter S. Hill; Eskinder Wolka; Frehiwot Nigatu; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, 2023-07-28)

  The understanding of primary health care (PHC) has evolved significantly, evident in key World Health Organization (WHO) reports, promoting PHC as a means for health for all, identifying key health systems reforms and ...
• Multisectoral actions in primary health care: A realist synthesis of scoping review 

  Resham B Khatri; Daniel Erku; Aklilu Endalamaw; Eskinder Wolka; Frehiwot Nigatu; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa (2023)

  Background: Multisectoral actions (MSAs) on health are key to implementation of primary health care (PHC) and achieving the targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 3. However, there is limited understanding and ...
• Successes and challenges towards improving quality of primary health care services: a scoping review. 

  Aklilu Endalamaw; Resham B Khatri; Daniel Erku; Frehiwot Nigatu; Anteneh Zewdie; Eskinder Wolka; Yibeltal Assefa (2023)

  Background: Quality health services build communities' and patients' trust in health care. It enhances the acceptability of services and increases health service coverage. Quality primary health care is imperative for ...
• Continuity and care coordination of primary health care: a scoping review. 

  Resham Khatri 1 2, Aklilu Endalamaw 3 4, Daniel Erku 5 6, Eskinder Wolka 7, Frehiwot Nigatu 7, Anteneh Zewdie 7, Yibeltal Assefa 3 (2023)

  Background: Healthcare coordination and continuity of care conceptualize all care providers and organizations involved in health care to ensure the right care at the right time. However, systematic evidence synthesis is ...
• Factors influencing the uptake and utilization of cervical cancer screening services among women attending public health centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: mixed methods study 

  Kemal Hussein; Gilbert Kokwaro; Francis Wafula; Getnet Mitike Kassie (BMC Women's Health, 2024-01-02)

  Background Cervical cancer is the second cause of cancer deaths among Ethiopian women. Despite multifaceted government efforts, the uptake and utilization of cervical cancer screening remain very low. This study aimed ...
• Influence of contextual factors on strengthening key strategic and operational levers of primary healthcare to achieve universal health coverage: A protocol for a realist review 

  Frehiwot Nigatu; Aklilu Endalamaw; Eskinder Wolka; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa; Daniel Erku; Resham Khatri (BMG OPEN, 2023-03-20)

  Introduction Existing scoping reviews on the link between primary healthcare (PHC) and universal health coverage (UHC) have not sufficiently addressed the underlying causal mechanisms in which key strategic and ...
• Community engagement initiatives in primary health care to achieve universal health coverage: A realist synthesis of scoping review 

  Frehiwot Nigatu; Aklilu Endalamaw; Eskinder Wolka; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa; Daniel Erku; Resham Khatri (PLOS ONE, 2023-05-03)

  Community engagement (CE) is an essential component in a primary health care (PHC) and there have been growing calls for service providers to seek greater CE in the planning, design, delivery and evaluation of PHC services. ...
• Successes, weaknesses, and recommendations to strengthen primary health care: a scoping review 

  Aklilu Endalamaw; Daniel Erku; Resham B. Khatri; Frehiwot Nigatu; Eskinder Wolka; Anteneh Zewdie; Yibeltal Assefa (2023)

  Background Primary health care (PHC) is a roadmap for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). There were several fragmented and inconclusive pieces of evidence needed to be synthesized. Hence, we synthesized evidence to ...
• Practical contribution of women development army on growth monitoring and promotion service at Dembya and Gondar Zuria districts, Central Gondar Zone, North West Ethiopia: A community based mixed study 

  Esmael Ali Muhammad, Melkamu Tamir Hunegnaw, Kedir Abdela Gonete, Netsanet Worku, Kasahun Alemu, Zegeye Abebe, Tigist Astale, Getnet Mitike & Aysheshim Kassahun Belew (BMC health service research, 2023)

  The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-2 aims to eliminate child hunger or end all forms of child malnutrition by 2030. To achieve this goal the cost-effective method is the implementation of growth monitoring ...
• Functionality of nutrition steering and technical committees and quality of child growth monitoring program in northwest Ethiopia 

  Aysheshim Kassahun Belew; Netsanet Worku; Kassahun Alemu Gelaye; Kedir Abdella Gonete; Melkamu Tamir Hunegnaw; Esmeal Ali Muhammad; Getnet Mitike; Ayenew Molla Lakew; Zegeye Abebe (s[ringer, 2023-05-25)

  Malnutrition in Ethiopia is still a major public health problem. Effective growth monitoring activities are difficult to integrate with local circumstances and a national program and are also given less weight. Therefore, ...
• Workload and emerging challenges of community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review 

  Tigist AstaleID; Tsegereda Abebe; Getnet Mitike (PLOS ONE, 2023-03-13)

  Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in improving access to health ser- vices to a broader population; particularly to communities living in remote areas. However, the productivity of CHWs is affected ...
• Health system response to COVID-19 among primary health care units in Ethiopia: A qualitative study 

  Getnet Mitike; Frehiwot Nigatu; Eskinder Wolka; Atkure Defar; Masresha Tessema; Tezita Nigussie (PLOS ONE, 2023-02-10)

  There was limited data on the experiences and roles of sub-national health systems in the response against COVID-19 in Ethiopia. This study explored how sub-national primary health care units and coordinating bodies in ...
• What improves access to primary healthcare services in rural communities? A systematic review 

  Zemichael Gizaw; Tigist Astale; Getnet Mitike Kassie (BMC Primary Care, 2022)

  To compile key strategies from the international experiences to improve access to primary healthcare (PHC) services in rural communities. Different innovative approaches have been practiced in different parts of the world ...
• Recovery rate of severe acute malnourished children aged 6–59 months enrolled in outpatient therapeutic program at health posts of Central Gondar zone, Ethiopia 

  Ayal Debie; Getnet Mitike Kassie; Chalie Tadie Tsehay; Tsegaye Gebremedhin; Eskedar Getie Mekonnen; Wubet Worku Takele; Ashenafi Tazebew; Amare Demsie (sagepub, 2022)

  Inadequate intake of food is one of the causes of malnutrition and has significant impact on the deaths of children in low-income countries. Community-based management of acute malnutrition was endorsed as a strategy to ...
• High burden of hypertension amongst the adult population in rural districts of Northwest Ethiopia: A call for community based intervention 

  Destaw Fetene Teshome; Shitaye Alemu Balcha; Tadesse Awoke Ayele; Asmamaw Atnafu; Mekonnen Sisay; Marye Getnet Asfaw; Getnet Mitike; Kassahun Alemu Gelaye (pubmed, 2022-10)

  Background: Hypertension is a serious public health issue in Ethiopia, but there is a paucity of evidence in the country's rural areas. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of hypertension and its risk ...
• Barriers and facilitators of maternal health care services use among pastoralist women in Ethiopia: Systems thinking perspective 

  Mulusew G. Jebena*, Million Tesfaye , Gudina Abashula , Sena Balina , Ruth Jackson , Yibeltal Assefa , Yibeltal Kifle, Chala Tesfaye , Melaku Yilma , Abiy Hiruy , Alula Teklu , Bezawit Adugna Bahru, Esubalew Assefa, Mekdes Demissie, Getnet Mitike and Kora Tushune (BMC health service research, 2022)

  We explored the barriers and facilitators of maternal health care service use among women in the pastoralist region of Ethiopia. We used a mixed methods design—focus group discussions, key informant interviews, review ...
• Perceived barriers and enablers infuencing health extension workers toward home-based hypertension screening in rural northwest Ethiopia: interpretive descriptive study 

  Destaw Fetene Teshome; Shitaye Alemu Balcha; Tadesse Awoke Ayele; Asmamaw Atnafu; Mekonnen Sisay; Marye Getnet Asfaw; Getnet Mitike; Kassahun Alemu Gelaye (BMC health service research, 2022)

  Background: Hypertension, a major but modifable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, is a global health problem including Ethiopia. In a limited infrastructure task sharing of hypertension screening for community ...
• Comparison of self-collected versus clinician collected cervicovaginal specimens for detection of high risk human papillomavirus among HIV infected women in Ethiopia 

  Agajie Likie Bogale; Tilahun Teklehaymanot; Jemal Haidar Ali; Getnet Mitike Kassie; Girmay Medhin; Ajanaw Yizengaw Baye; Amelework Yilma Shiferaw (Bogale et al. BMC Women’s Health, 2022)

  Background: In order to meet the WHO 2030 cervical cancer elimination program, evaluation and utilization of sensitive testing method, and feasible sampling technique is a paradigm for enhancing cervical cancer ...
• Trained health extension workers correctly identify high blood pressure in rural districts of northwest Ethiopia: A diagnostic accuracy study 

  Teshome, Destaw Fetene; Balcha, Shitaye Alemu; Ayele, Tadesse Awoke; et al (BMC Health Services Research (2022) 22:375, 2022-03-22)

  Background: Hypertension is a public health issue in Ethiopia. The vast majority of cases remain undiagnosed and untreated. Early and accurate identification of hypertension can help with timely management and reduce the ...

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