Asrat Zewdie

Discussion The current study was aimed at assessing the magnitude and identifying factors associated with health information usage among healthcare professionals at health centres. According to our findings, 65.8% of the healthcare professionals in health centres demonstrated health information usage.

Introduction In an effort to manage health issues and safeguard the public from various health dangers, healthcare facilities can generate waste1 that could be potentially harmful to the staff of healthcare facilities, patients and the surrounding community and affect the environment when the waste is not managed properly.2 3 Healthcare waste (HCW) constitutes a special category of waste, and it is now well known that some types of HCW are among the most harmful and dangerous of all...

Results Sociodemographic characteristics A total of 920 sampled individuals were interviewed, making a 100% response rate. All of them consented to being interviewed and provided clinical samples. The mean age of the respondents was 26.95 years, with 5.5 SDs and an age range of 16–40 years. Among all respondents, 326 (35.4%) were in the age group of 20–24 years. Most of them (99.2%) were currently married and rural dwellers (63.3%).