Methods: This study conducted a secondary analysis of the nationally-representative Nepal Health Facility Survey (NHFS) 2021 data and used the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) Manual from the World Health Organization (WHO) to examine the HF's readiness...
ICF. Nepal Health Facility Survey 2021. Kathmandu: Ministry of Health and ICF; 2022. Acharya K, Thapa R, Bhattarai N, Bam K, Shrestha B. Availability and readiness to provide sexually transmitted infections and HIV testing and counselling services in Nepal: evidence from comprehensive health ...
Readiness of the health system to provide non-communicable disease services in Nepal: a comparison between the 2015 and 2021 comprehensive health facility ... In Nepal, despite the escalating burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there is a gap in the continuum of care for prevention, ...
Affordability for daily necessities, access to healthcare and purchasing power are influenced by income, which can be very low or non-existent for older people [45, 46]. Another study from Nepal reported that over one-third of the participants had not visited a health facility in the previous...
Tommy Gustafsson, project director and a co-founder of the Sagarmatha Next Centre - a visitors’ information centre and waste up-cycling facility - said foreign and local artists will be engaged in creating artwork from waste materials and train locals to turn trash into...
Individual-level nutritional status determinants measured included asking the adolescent girls whether they had heard of and ever visited a government health facility designed explicitly to provide a friendly welcome, convenient service hours, privacy and confidentiality, and other characteristics to facilitate...
Though there were no significant differences in depression and anxiety symptoms between the intervention and control arms of the study, men in the intervention arm reported providing practical support to their female partners and accompanied their partner to the health facility more often (Comrie-...
Helen Keller International, in collaboration with Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population's Child Health Division, implemented a study to assess mothers' exposure to promotions for and utilization of breastmilk substitutes in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. A health facility-based, cross-sectional survey ...
13 For the neurotoxic syndrome, WHO recommends a maximum delay of 1 h between the bite and reaching the health facility.15 For the haemotoxic syndrome, studies in India and Brazil have shown that administration of SAV before 6 h significantly reduced the development of severe envenoming ...
WWTP A had an activated sludge system with capacity of 17.3 million liters per day (MLD), while WWTP B in a non-aerated lagoon facility with a design capacity of 1.1 MLD (Asian Development Bank 2021). 2.2. Detection of FIB As FIB, a most probable number method using a Colilert reagent...