Getahun Lombamo

University of Saskatchewan | U of S · USask Health Sciences office

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are associated with cardiometabolic diseases and social inequities. For most nations, recent estimates and trends of intake are not available; nor variation by education or urbanicity. We investigated SSB intakes among adults between 1990 and 2018 in 185 countries, stratified subnationally by age, sex, education, an...

Animal-source foods (ASF) provide nutrition for children and adolescents’ physical and cognitive development. Here, we use data from the Global Dietary Database and Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify global, regional and national ASF intakes between 1990 and 2018 by age group across 185 countries, representing 93% of the world’s child populat...

Evidence on what people eat globally is limited in scope and rigour, especially as it relates to children and adolescents. This impairs target setting and investment in evidence-based actions to support healthy sustainable diets. Here we quantified global, regional and national dietary patterns among children and adults, by age group, sex, educatio...

Background: The healthcare system is filled with “individually competent” professionals who are not necessarily “collectively competent” when put together...

This chapter describes large group teaching as an instructional strategy and the context it is appropriate for along with SWOT analysis of the strategy and practical experiences from the field.

Background: Whether growing pulses (low fat legumes rich in protein and micronutrients) translates to nutritional health benefits has not been well documented in Ethiopia. In pulse- and cereal-based agricultural communities, we compared the nutrition of mothers and children (<5y) through anthropometric and dietary assessment to document evidence of...

A scoping review of ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUFs) in Ethiopia was conducted. They are integral to management of acute malnutrition in Ethiopia, particularly among young children. A growing interest in the use of RUFs among HIV positive patients was noted.

Addressing maternal and child undernutrition is a priority for the National Nutrition Program of Ethiopia. In a cross-sectional design, we selected mother-child pairs (n = 630) from Halaba, south Ethiopia (n = 413, two communities) and Zeway, Oromiya region (n = 217, one community). These communities were previously included in a project to improve...

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A six‐month nutrition education intervention on pulse and other food consumption was conducted in mothers of children under‐5 in the pulse‐growing region of Halaba, south Ethiopia. The intervention incorporated the health belief model, on Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP), and objective measures included dietary diversity scores (DDS), dietar...

Food insecurity and hunger are major challenges in many Ethiopian communities with repercussions on health and nutrition outcomes in vulnerable household members. The level and contextual risk factors of household food insecurity and hunger were assessed in households (n=630) from three rural communities of Ethiopia (Halaba or Zeway) using the Hous...

Background: Good nutrition and appropriate child feeding are vital in early stages of child development, particularly in the first 1000 days of life. Objective: To assess the adoption of infant and young child feeding practices of World Health Organization, dietary intake, and level of undernutrition in children <2 years of age. Methods: Basel...

Addressing maternal and child undernutrition is one of the strategic objectives and a priority area agenda for the National Nutrition Program of Ethiopia. We estimated the burden of maternal and child undernutrition in two rural communities (Halaba & Zeway) of Ethiopia and compared outcomes with regional/national reports as well as explored their a...

Food insecurity and hunger are major challenges in many Ethiopian communities with repercussions on health and nutrition outcomes in vulnerable household members. Depending on the context, a combination of supply and demand factors, community and institutional factors may affect household food insecurity and hunger. Our objective was to determine t...

Food insecurity and hunger are major challenges in many Ethiopian communities with repercussions on health and nutrition outcomes in vulnerable household members. Depending on the context, a combination of supply and demand factors, community and institutional factors may affect household food insecurity and hunger. Our objective was to determine t...

Abstract: Background: Nutrition and health related behaviour is influenced by one’s perception of susceptibility to and magnitude of health risks as well as perceived benefits of proposed behaviour. Pulses (low fat legumes) are excellent sources of protein and micronutrients; thus, increased consumption would benefit those at risk for undernutritio...

This paper was a portion of a baseline study on infant and young child feeding practices and child undernutrition conducted in southern Ethiopian and was presented at a national conference under a sub-theme: Nutrition, Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health and Communicable Diseases; Abstract: Objective: Levels of undernutrition, compliance of inf...

Maternal iodine nutrition during pregnancy is critical and deficiency during this period may compromise optimal fetal development. To determine iodine status and knowledge of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) of pregnant women in rural Sidama, southern Ethiopia. A cross-sectional community-based study was conducted in three kebeles which were selec...

The period from birth to two years of age is a "critical window" of opportunity for the promotion of optimal growth, health and behavioral development of children. Poor child feeding patterns combined with household food insecurity can lead to malnutrition which is a major public health problem in developing countries like Ethiopia. A community bas...