This paper highlights the specific challenges to healthcare system sustainability in Nepal and the potential for high-value, lower-cost alternative healthcare delivery models to improve system performance in the longer term.Rai, PramilaO'Connor, Denise A....
Pattern of Skin Diseases in Geriatric Population: Our Year-Long Experience from Nepal. Introduction:The average life span has increased by about two decades in Nepal in last 30 years. With increasing longevity, geriatric health care is gainin... S Uprety,S Paudel,P Thapa - 《Indian Dermatolog...
PublicHealthStatusandchallengesofNepal Preparedby SagarPrasadGhimire MPH,InstituteofMedicine,Nepal China Nepal’sPopulationPyramid2003 BasicInformation AREA:1,47,181Sq.Km HIGHESTMOUNTAIN:MountEverest POPULATION:24.6million REGION: 5 ZONE:14 DISTRICT:75 ...
In this review article, the authors examine breast cancer in multiple facets, comprising the updated statistics on breast cancer, typically in Asia; etiology of breast cancer; diagnosis of breast cancer; grading system; and challenges in breast cancer from the country’s income perspective. ...
Mental health policy exists in Nepal, having been adopted in 1997, but implementation of the policy framework has yet to begin. In common with other LMICs, the budget allocated for mental health is minimal. Mental health services are concentrated in the big cities, with 0.22 psychiatrists and ...
Transmission of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in humans happens either through airway exposure to respiratory droplets from an infected patient or by touc
The IC values of each cell are presented in an interval of [−∞, + ∞], with connectivity increasing for larger IC values as calculated using eq. (5).(5)IC=log10DupDdn=log10W¯S¯A∑idiWiSiwhere Dup is the upslope component, Ddn is the downslope component, Wi is the weighting...
Oral health in Nepal: Challenges v/s Spiritual BeliefNEPALHEALTH educationSPIRITUALITYORAL hygieneHEALTH services accessibilityGINGIVITISSOCIAL supportORAL healthSELF-evaluationPERIODONTITISdoi:10.1111/idh.12775Goyal, AsthaShinde, Sarita A.Purandare, Nidhi...
This paper explores some of the complexities of an ageing population in Nepal and focuses on examining the various health and service implications to a nation that has recently been engaged in a decade long 'People's War'. Through highlighting the paucity of research in this area, this paper ...
The authors describe attempts in Nepal to extend the general health services to its population living in hills and mountains through a network of village health posts. It is noted that trends have shown extent and pattern of mental morbidity in the country similar to other developing countries, ...